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...further dilution of his much modified amendment. "I've been pitching long enough," said he. "Now I want to be on the catching end." All of which, at week's end, moved the decision into the Administration dugout, where Manager Lyndon Johnson was searching for a consensus...
...relative stranger in 1961 to the complexities of Capitol Hill-though hardly to politics-O'Brien was largely responsible for passage of the few bills that J.F.K. managed to get through Congress. His success sorely dismayed Vice President Lyndon Johnson, the old maestro of Senate consensus, who had naturally expected to be No. 1 New Frontiersman on Capitol Hill. Yet, to O'Brien's amazement, on the plane back from Dallas after Kennedy's assassination, Johnson asked him to stay on-and promised him "a blank check...
...better to preserve the United Nations as a forum for international discussion than to paralyze it in pursuit of a futile principle. "We are faced with a simple and inescapable fact of life," explained Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg in his maiden speech in the U.N. "The consensus of the membership is that the Assembly should proceed normally. We will not seek to frustrate that consensus...
...Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 63, barrel-chested boss of Madras, who as president of the Congress Party dreamed up the consensus scheme as a means of installing Shastri after Nehru's death. But Kamaraj speaks only Tamil, and even if Shastri were to vanish, would be content to remain only a kingmaker and cash collector for the party. Last week Kamaraj was touring his home state, preceded by an elephant with bells on its toes, to celebrate his birthday. In lieu of gifts he collected $350,000 for the party coffers...
Return to the Raj? The strength of the Syndicate was best demonstrated at the recent meeting of the Congress's All-India Committee in Bangalore (TIME, Aug. 6). There Shastri carefully coaxed his fellow Congressmen into reappointing Kamaraj as party president, thus perpetuating the chance for consensus in the 1967 elections. But the Congress-led by Gandhi strictly as a revolutionary movement-is perverting the purpose for which it was conceived. Gandhi had urged the party to dissolve itself after independence was gained...