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...majority in the House. But they are unlikely to elect enough to win formal control. Thus, aging Massachusetts Democrat John McCormack, 76 is likely to be elected to a fifth term as Speaker, and Michigan Republican Gerald Ford, 55, will probably be thwarted once again in his ambition to swap the job of minority leader for the Speaker's gavel. Whoever is President, moreover, will be in for serious trouble. A Democratic Congress, even a conservatively oriented one, would probably be hostile to Nixon; a conservative Congress, even one controlled by Democrats, would probably thwart Hubert Humphrey regularly...
...dressing," gladly spends extra moments before the mirror making sure that the bits and pieces that she has combined for the particular occasion really go together. Designer Sant'Angelo goes Chessie one better by inviting girls over to his apartment for dressing-for-the-party parties. The girls swap clothes freely, creating costumes for each other and parading around like little children turned loose in a grownup's closet. Sometimes, the designer admits sheepishly, they get so carried away with dressing that they never make the party...
...nervous the bankers get, fearful that the great golden overhang might somehow cause the free-market price to collapse. Some see South African sales to the IMF as a clever way to let European countries increase their own gold reserves without violating the March agreements. Such countries would simply swap their own currencies for IMF gold...
Inevitably, friendships, or at least mutual tolerance, spring up between the correspondents and the campaigners as they eat, drink and travel thousands of miles together. This week Hays Gorey and Simmons Fentress will swap candidates, Gorey going to Nixon and Fentress to Humphrey. That way, each correspondent aims to get a different perspective on his man and cast a fresh eye on his opponent...
...positions" of deliberately "sabotaging 'the Moscow agreements." Dubček himself may well be at the top of the list. It has not escaped the Russians that he has managed to countervail the loss of many a reformer by sacking a pro-Moscow counterpart (last week's swap: Hájek for Communications Minister Karel Hoffman, who compliantly ordered radio and TV to go off the air shortly after the invasion began...