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Died. J. (for Jesse) Arthur Younger, 74, eight-term G.O.P. Congressman from San Mateo County, Calif., a prosperous San Francisco savings and loan executive who became an early (1954) exponent of giving Cabinet status to big-city interests under an etymologically questionable but politically sensible "Department of Urbiculture," the conceptual forebear of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; of leukemia; in Washington...
Everett Dirksen was an eight-term Congressman back in 1948 when his doctors told him that he was losing his eyesight. Though a sure winner, he declined to run for a ninth term and went home to Pekin, Ill., to pray. Dirksen, who today is almost as sound of vision as he is of voice, is genuinely convinced that what saved him from blindness was prayer-and he is determined to pass on its 20/20 benefits to the rest...
Good Credentials. Weltner's predecessor was one James C. Davis, an eight-term Congressman who kept getting returned to Washington because of Georgia's unfair county-unit electoral system (which was loaded in favor of rural counties as against urban areas), his unflagging efforts to secure appropriations to fight hog cholera and water hyacinths, and his diehard segregationism. Then the county-unit system was overturned by the federal courts, the district was redrawn to include more of Atlanta and less of farm counties, and in 1962 along came Weltner to run against Davis. He had imposing Southern credentials...
...Mack. An unpredictable liberal (he voted against foreign aid this year), Mack was given twelve rural Republican counties. Findley, a weekly newspaper publisher and a Goldwater conservative, seems ahead. But Mack is durable: when another G.O.P. legislature gerrymandered his district a decade ago he won anyway. In West Virginia, eight-term Democrat Cleveland M. Bailey, 76, has a new district that gives him a 50,000 registration advantage. But middle-roading G.O P Congressman Arch A. Moore Jr., 39, has won the endorsement of some labor groups, even a few Democratic leaders. A Democratic legislature in North Carolina threw...
Rayburn just let things simmer, then last week he allowed the senior insurgent, California's eight-term Chet Holifield, to enter his office and raise the rules question. Then he gave the answer: No. With little more than the whimper of a face-saving press release, the Democratic revolt curled up and died...