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No stirring speeches resound from the majority leader's seat, front and center in the Senate's stately chamber. No grand initiatives are launched. No crafty deals are struck, no arms are twisted. Yet easygoing Howard Henry Baker Jr., 56, of tiny Huntsville, Tenn. (pop. 519), has become...
No one is going to compliment Ken Anderson and get away with it. Anderson, 32, hailed last week by a florid Cincinnati sportswriter as "Jack Armstrong come to life in a football uniform," is the classic aw-shucks hero, resolutely unquotable, eager to point out that he is merely one...
Reagan frowned. "Aw, shucks, Jim, can't you discuss them without me?"
It was countdown to roll call in Congress, and the vote on the tax bill in the House, according to all predictions, was going to be close. The White House knew that a little salesmanship was in order, and so the Great Persuader went to work. After it was over...
DIED. Carl Vinson, 97, Georgia Democrat who served longer in the U.S. House of Representatives (50 years, from 1914 to 1965) than any other Congressman in history, and who as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee for 14 years played a major role in the expansion of U.S. military...