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...oath of office last week beneath the Bundestag's plump, lead-grey German eagle, Adenauer lolled in a black leather chair, looking more than ever like a wily Sioux chieftain clad in a cutaway. Dapper, handsome Dr. Erich Mende, leader of the Free Democrats, sat perkily in a front-row seat. Pink-cheeked Dr. Erhard barely said good morning to Adenauer, and glanced casually through a newspaper during the Chancellor's brief speech...
Next, while the 77-year-old widow of George Catlett Marshall strained to hear from her front-row seat, came a passage from the 1947 Harvard speech in which the soldier-statesman proposed the Marshall Plan of postwar aid: "Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos." For his third offering, March had planned to read Ernest Hemingway's short story, The Killers. But as tribute to World War II PT-boat Hero Kennedy, Widow Mary Hemingway had dug through a bank vault of her husband's unpublished manuscripts...
Headquarters representatives of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. were conspicuously absent when Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., new chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, called a get-acquainted meeting for union representatives and lobbyists. Very much in evidence in a front-row seat was Sidney Zagri, top Washington mouthpiece for Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany's reasons for boycotting the meeting were twofold: 1) he refuses to let A.F.L.-C.I.O. officers fraternize with Teamsters, and 2) his opinion of Racist Powell's potentialities as guardian of labor's affairs in Congress: "Terrible...
...door to the lobby swung behind L.B.J., his successor, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, gathered up his papers and edged into Johnson's front-row aisle seat. It was just about the only solid evidence of his new office that Mansfield was likely to get. In his new role, or roles, Johnson will retain and pick up more titles and perquisites than a Bourbon king. He will continue as presiding officer over the Senate Democratic caucuses and director of party strategy-a job traditionally held by the majority leader, with an added $40,000-a-year payroll for office help...
When Dick Nixon traveled to Maine -at Maggie Smith's invitation-for a rousing welcome last month, he urged her to break her rule and campaign with him, but rather than risk missing a vote, Maggie chose to stick by her front-row desk. Most G.O.P. Senators would have run to Nixon's side, but Maggie runs her own show, with her own organization in Maine, and pays little heed to the regular state machine or the National Committee. She turned her back on the Republican Convention last July, chose to mend her fences in Maine instead...