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...sumptuously outfitted. All feature willow headboards from Milan, teak bedside tables, Thai bedspreads and framed collections of seashells, plus spacious balconies to sun on. Bathrooms have mirror walls, marble sink counters, built-in ice-cube makers and overhead infrared lamps. A tri-level restaurant affords virtually every table a front-row view of the ocean. Rockefeller's total costs come to an astronomical $100,000 per room-a handsome bet on the hope that intelligent and affluent tourists will spend the extra effort to get to his faraway paradise rather than stop short at Waikiki Beach...
...front-row Senate desk, Louisiana Democrat Russell Long rose last week to open the debate. "The pending bill," he said, glancing at the 387-page document before him, "will be the largest and most significant piece of social legislation ever to pass the Congress in the history of our country. It will do more immediate good for more people who need the attention of their Government than any bill that the Congress has ever enacted...
Teddy was neither awed nor swayed. Wearing a navy-blue suit with a PT-boat tie clasp, and leaning on a silver-headed cane, he arose at the front-row desk next to Mansfield's, which he had appropriated for the occasion, and speaking from notes, defended the first major item of legislation he had ever managed on the floor. "It is a settled constitutional doctrine," orated Teddy, by way of rationalizing a universal ban on poll taxes, "that where Congress finds an evil to exist, such as the economic burden in this case, it can apply a remedy...
...President's delivery, to be sure, was in the best stumping style. He flailed his arms, pounded the lectern, shouted so hard his voice broke, leaned so far forward he was practically nose to nose with front-row listeners. But his words belied his mannerisms. They were carefully calculated as an above-party-politics plea to Republicans and Democrats alike...
Never the LIke Again. Last week he and his House of Commons bade each other final farewell. Leaning heavily on his two backbench volunteer escorts, Churchill-now 89 and too feeble to stand for re-election-rose painfully from his front-row corner seat, tottered up the aisle, turned slowly to make the usual bow of recognition to the Speaker...