THE 87th Congress tried desperately hard to die last weekand could not even make a success of that. Just as the members were getting ready to leave Washington for the year, two Democratic Senators raised objections that held the session over until this week. One was Georgia's Richard Russell, making a last-minute fight for a federal laboratory to grade peanuts at Dawson, Ga. The other was Florida's George Smathers, working to save a bill that would grant tax relief to self-employed persons who set up pension plans for themselves.
The lingering end was characteristic...
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