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...Knowland had called New York's new Senator Jacob Javits to Washington for the opening. Uneager to take his Senate seat until a reconvening New York assembly outfoxes Governor Averell Harriman and elects a Republican to succeed him as New York's Attorney General, Javits was not sworn in. But he kept within three minutes' hailing distance, on the chance that Lausche's vote and his own would throw the Senate into a 48-48 tie, to be broken the Republicans' way by Vice President Richard Nixon...
...Harris prayed that his charges be saved "from all compromise, which crucifies principle, and from all shoddy workmanship, which betrays the possible best, and from cowardly expediency, which is treason to the highest integrity." With the 33 other members beginning terms, he marched to the Senate well to be sworn in by the Vice President. Then came Lausche's moment. When Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson proposed that Arizona's venerable Carl Hayden be elected Senate President Pro Tempore, Republican Bill Knowland rose, offered New Hampshire's Styles Bridges instead, called for yeas and nays on his amendment...
...state capitals, 531 Constitution-ordained members of the Electoral College gathered to perform a patently superfluous rite, their sworn duty to re-elect (457-74) Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon to the nation's highest offices. In Alabama, however, one elector chose to ignore the vote that sent him to college, wrote in for President, instead of Adlai Stevenson, the name of Alabama's states-rightist Judge Walter B. Jones. Thus history books will forever record the 1956 election results as: Eisenhower, 457; Stevenson, 73; Jones...
...behest of a Miami draft board, Gregory Hancock Hemingway, 24, youngest son of Author Ernest Hemingway, winged into Florida from British East Africa, was promptly sworn into the Army, in which Private Hemingway aims to become a paratrooper. A coffeegrower, big-game hunter and guide in Tanganyika, young Hemingway wryly confessed that he had to sell a gun and his car to raise the $800 air fare. Though he would get little chance to show it in the Army, had he inherited any of Papa's literary genius? Grinned Gregory: "I write nothing more than an occasional bad check...
Conflicting sworn statements by the Cambridge chief of police and a police sergeant yesterday marked the City Council's hearing on the alleged cover-up of gamblers by city officials...