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...Senate, New York's liberal Republican Jacob Javits and the state's incoming Conservative James Buckley exchanged friendly banter, even though Javits had just challenged Buckley's right to join the Republican caucus. After he was sworn in, California Democrat John Tunney smilingly grasped the hand of Vice President Spiro Agnew, who had personally fought his election. A bipartisan ovation greeted the return of Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, whose eternal ebullience is still enjoyed by his longtime colleagues. Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, deposed from his job as majority whip only minutes before in a stunning upset, quietly beckoned...
ADLAI STEVENSON ill, 40, Democrat, Ill., bears the prestige-and the burden-of a highly revered name. The biggest vote getter in Illinois history, excepting his father's gubernatorial landslide, he was sworn in immediately after the November elections to fill the remaining four years of the late Senator Dirksen's term. He hit the deck running, voting for a job-safety bill dear to Democrats...
Barnes's article was based on a sworn affidavit of Thomas Hetinger, a former campus security officer who left his job for "personal reasons" early this fall...
...Adlai Stevenson, the household problems were simpler. The Republican he defeated for a Senate seat from Illinois, Ralph Tyler Smith, was in the chamber when Stevenson was sworn in last week ahead of everybody else. The two men established an amicable demilitarized zone as Stevenson took over three of the six rooms in Smith's suite in the old Senate Office Building. On Stevenson's side, people flowed in in a kind of happy chaos while a small boy cheerfully answered the phone; across the DMZ, a Smith aide said that things were pretty dull...
Unlike Stevenson, who got a head start in the seniority race because under Illinois law he could replace Smith immediately, the other new Senators and all new House members will be sworn in on the same day in January. In the Senate, seniority for newcomers is determined by prior political experience, but otherwise all are equal: each gets one unabridged dictionary, a desk, a divan and two chairs. Whatever else a Senator wants must come out of his office and staff allowance...