Representatives and Senators gathering for this week's opening of the 87th Congress. Second Session, found the Capitol Hill landscape somewhat rearranged. The giant new $100 million House office building, only a web of rusty girders when Congress adjourned last September, was resplendent in a coat of white Georgia marble, though it will not be ready for occupancy for at least another year. New parapet lights illuminated the ornate designs on the Senate's arched ceiling, which have generally been shrouded in darkness since Constantino Brumidi painted them nearly a century ago. Space inside the reconstructed east front of the Capitol...
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