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Round 2 was the August rump session of Congress. Kennedy and Johnson were outmaneuvered by Eisenhower's veto threats and outvoted by a coalition of Northern Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats. When the session ended, Candidate Kennedy had a look of failure and ineptness upon...
...political campaigns are different, but 1960 is clearly going to be more so. Both presidential candidates sat confined in the Senate chambers last week, eager to be somewhere else, and they were getting away whenever they could from a congressional rump session increasingly vituperative and unproductive. August is usually the quiet month when the candidates organize the fall's storms. But already the campaign was taking shape, and an unexpected...
...Vientiane two days after the coup flew portly General Ouane Rathi-kone, who is both Army chief of staff to Premier Somsanith and uncle to Captain Kongle. Ouane Rathikone airily announced that he would work out a solution "en famille." But at week's end a 43-man rump session of the National Assembly meekly gathered in Vientiane to vote no confidence in Somsanith, envoys still shuttled back and forth between the two cities, and no compromise Cabinet had been agreed upon. So far, the only solid accomplishment of Kongle's coup had been to demonstrate...
...their constant battle with gold smugglers, customs men all over Asia have come to accept as routine the typewriters with camouflaged gold space bars, the shipments of gold-filled salmon, the rump-heavy laying hens and the resourceful uses of just about every human orifice. But though the customs men know most of the tricks, they manage to intercept, by one estimate, less than 5% of the smuggled gold. Shrugged one cynical old hand in the gold trade: "After all, just for looking the other way when a bag of gold goes over the rail of an incoming steamer...
...more than reciprocal. In Red China's longstanding suit for admission to the United Nations, the Toronto Globe is a warm Canadian ally. "To refuse to recognize the real, effective Chinese government is bad enough," said the Globe in an editorial last August. "But to pretend that a rump regime, decaying on a small island, is the true government of China is sheer folly...