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A Good Country. One secret of Mike Di Salle's success is that he is a politician, and not ashamed of it. Since his schooldays, his eye has been out for the political chance, and his vision is still 20-20. He reads all the Ohio Sunday papers and...
The habits and tricks Di Salle learned in Toledo work well in Washington. He has the staying power of a stevedore ("I don't quit easy") and a temperament as smooth as Devonshire cream. He rents a two-room apartment-but is rarely there except to sleep (making his...
He has captivated Washington correspondents with his candor, his willingness to take on all questions, his 24-hour-a-day readiness to answer reporters' telephone calls. Most members of Congress seem to feel the same way about him. Even when it is intent on boiling him 11 oil or...
When it comes to doing something he thinks his country needs, Di Salle lets no one stand in his way. Last week it was the cotton bloc, a group which shot gaping holes through price control in World War II. This time it came marching up out of the Southland...
For three hours one morning, Mississippi's rabid John Rankin, South Carolina's Burnet Maybank and half a dozen other cotton legislators abused, battered and threatened Di Salle. With a decisiveness and political courage seldom shown in Washington these days, Di Salle stuck to one answer: "If there...