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...Senate floor-but he has never come close to making that dramatic sort of oration that changes the course of legislative history. In his home state, he has little political power. Yet of all the 35 Senators running for election this year, North Carolina Democrat Samuel James Ervin Jr., 65, has less to worry about than anyone. Last week he won his party's nomination unopposed. And in North Carolina-where there is a substantive Republican vote-the G.O.P. can only offer token opposition against Ervin in November...
...secret of Ervin's success is one of the sunniest dispositions in U.S. politics...
Uncle Eph. On Capitol Hill, it is considered sophisticated to stay silent on the floor but to be influential behind the scenes. Ervin is not tremendously influential behind the scenes- and he is certainly not silent on the floor. But he has a way of relaxing Senate tensions when he speaks. He was still a freshman member of the Senate when, in 1954, the bitter Senate debate over the censure of Republican Joe McCarthy came up. At one point, when Senators seemed about to come to blows, Ervin arose. He told a typical tale about Uncle Ephraim. The poor...
...laundresses are fairly attractive, but it is not difficult to spot Claudine (Betsy Ervin) almost immediately. She is just full of vivacity and sauciness, and she is fun to look at. Her numbers with Breyer and Knopf are delightful, although again the music is no great shakes. Knopf is fine as the mad Bulgarian sculptor; he resists the temptation to play the whole part at 10,000 decibels, so it is just that much funnier when he does...
There were not only questions, but persistent protests. "I have gotten more letters on the Congo than on any other subject, and it appears that North Carolina people feel the only offense the Katangese are guilty of is wanting to be free.'' observes Democratic Senator Sam Ervin. Michigan's Republican Representative Gerald Ford found "fear and apprehension that the Administration is too prone to negotiate and not firm enough in its attitudes." Says California's Republican Representative Al Bell of his constituents: "They feel strongly about aid to the Iron Curtain countries and the planes sent...