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...humble as you can when you say it." Nodding politely, J. (for Joseph) Harold Grady, 42, retrieved his lapel, rushed off to deliver his televised victory statement. Grady had small reason to be humble. Two months earlier, in only his second campaign, he had knocked off wily Three-Termer D'Alesandro for mayor in the Democratic primary. Last week, Grady mowed down equally seasoned (onetime mayor, two-term Governor) Republican Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin by a record 81,000 votes...
...state professionals, players in as rough a practical political game as the country knows, rate curly-haired, paunchy Charlie Halleck a tough and ruthless performer, who has been often battered but never beaten in 35 years of office-holding. Old hands in the House, where he is a twelve-termer and twelve-year veteran as G.O.P. No. 2 man, rank him as "an Indiana politician with brains," a blunt, hard-driving scrapper...
Next to Speaker Sam Rayburn, 76, a 23-termer to whom the Lower House is a home, 14-term Virginia Democrat Howard Worth Smith is the most powerful Congressman. "Judge" Smith, 75, chairman of the Rules Committee, is the wintry-eyed gatekeeper who decides which legislation written by other committees gets to the floor for debate. A venerable stone wall against spending pressures. Smith drew the postelection ire of some 165 members of the new, liberal House, who mumbled direly about changing House rules to cut Smith's power, tripped off some brave headlines about "revolt...
...Minnesota's Ninth District, where Odin Langen chalked up the nation's only G.O.P. conquest of a Democratic seat by defeating two-termer Coya Knutson. Her prestige damaged at campaign time by a "Coya Come Home" letter from innkeeping Husband Andy Knutson (TIME, May 19 et seq.), Coya last week got Andy to the Capitol to admit he had written the letter at the instigation of his wife's political opponents and to add that he would like to see Coya back in Congress. The House committee found that Republican Langen had taken no part...
...Indiana, Democrats making mileage with attacks on Republican scandals picked up five Republican seats. Political Science Professor John Brademas, 31, unseated Freshman Republican F. Jay Nimtz and Theater Owner Joseph Barr, 40, toppled four-termer Charles Brownson...