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...might add: ho, ho, ho," observed Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois when recently asked his opinion on a proposed change in a procedural rule. The Republican Minority Leader's statement expresses concisely, if implicity, the two major reasons for the frustration of Congressional reform: (1) too many influential members, especially in the Senate, oppose basic reforms, and (2) there is a ludicrous discrepancy between the reformers' highest hopes and the remedial potential of their proposals...
...breakfast for women, assured the ladies that prayer in the Johnson family has always been "aloud and proud." Flying to New York, Johnson landed at Kennedy Airport, boarded a Marine helicopter, was whisked away to the Wall Street heliport, got into a black limousine and drove to the Carlyle Ho tel - thereby getting the East Side's rush-hour traffic into a memorable...
...sites are carefully zoned and restricted to prevent what Darlington refers to as "creeping urbanization." Creeping cuteness has already engulfed the development, which boasts such street names as Languid Lane and Nonchalant Road. Ho Hum Drive separates into Ho Street and Hum Street. The bank is on Wampum Way. The main drag, naturally, is Easy Street...
Talk & Chop. Formed three years ago, the Liberation Front has a "cabinet" composed of South Vietnamese; the "chairman" is Nguyen Huu Tho, 53, a Saigon-born, French-educated lawyer. But naturally, he is only a local coverup for North Viet Nam's Red Boss, Ho Chi Minh. The Front's "capital" is believed to be the Viet Cong's military GHQ, which is situated deep in the jungle 75 miles northwest of Saigon, conveniently close to the Cambodian frontier, and protected by a maze of fortifications plus 1,000 elite troops. From there, a disciplined apparatus extends...
...streamline the legislative process. There was even a proposal that the Senate require that all debate be germane to the legislative issue at hand. That notion got guffaws from Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen. "A germaneness rule for this body?" he asked. "Ha, ha, ha; and, I might add, ho, ho, ho...