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Wisconsin's Democratic Governor Gaylord Nelson, 46, was out to slay a solon. And he had it all planned out. The intended victim was Alexander Wiley, 78, after 24 years the senior Republican in the U.S. Senate. The plan was simple: campaign energetically around the state, irk the old gentleman, let him lose his temper, and then shrug it all off as though it were pitiful proof of senility. The Nelson strategy worked...
What had happened? It was quite simple. Every time the Democratic 87th got ready to die reasonably, a senior Democratic Solon demanded the right to take one last, long gasp...
...Fountain Ashurst, 87. No one, however, could fairly accuse Preminger of typecasting. "Five-Syllable Henry" Ashurst, now living in retirement in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, is admittedly the very model of an oldtime, wing-collared Senator. But in the Preminger movie, he will play a reticent, somnolent solon from Arkansas-a formidable frustration to a man who once described himself as a "veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano of language...
...cult has developed, the martini has suffered abominations that would have doomed a lesser drink. Johnny Solon, an unlamented mixologist at the old Waldorf bar, diluted the basic gin and vermouth with orange juice and called it a Bronx-a cheerless drink now well on its way to oblivion. Others have polluted the martini with grenadine, mint sprigs, anchovies, crystallized violets, sherry, absinthe, and even Chanel No. 5. They are still at it: last week Washingtonians were drinking something called a "dillytini"-a martini with a two-inch green bean, pickled in dill vinegar-which tastes, according to one experimenter...
...sure: South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, hero of the Dixiecrat uprising in the Democratic Party in 1948, suggested that they march in a body down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House to see Eisenhower and tell him they would not back down; his stalemate Olin ("the Solon") Johnston had a 40-hour speech ready for one of the biggest filibusters of all time. Calmly Russell argued Thurmond out of his proposal. He told Olin the Solon to keep his speech handy, just in case. Then Virginia's Harry Byrd summed up the sense of the meeting. "Dick...