THE CONGRESS: End of the 84th

The 84th Congress, in its second session, was an unwanted political child. It was born last January amid dire predictions that it would grow up as a ne'er-do-well in the broken election-year home of party-style Democracy and Republicanism. But it adjourned last week with surprisingly good grades in conduct.

Far into the night the House of Representatives shook with spirited, if unmelodious, yodels of Aloha Oe and the Whiffenpoof Song. From Dwight Eisenhower came a final message conveying "my best wishes to Mr. Sam." Said Speaker Sam Rayburn of the Texas-born President:...

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