HOUSING: Personal Matter?

Just to make sure that no Democrat walked off with the national capital while Congress was in recess, the Republicans had left a man behind to guard the place. Last week it was Senator John Bricker's turn to man the fort. With not much else to do, Acting Captain of the Guard Bricker gave reporters some of his ideas. One of them was that Bricker thought Congress might have to extend rent controls. Coming from Bricker, that was news. It was he who led the stubborn fight last summer against rent controls, but last week he had a personal...

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