Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy left the Congress last week with his rather studied enigma intact. Hubert Humphrey will take his seat, and McCarthy will move his base of operations from the old Senate Office Building to the Carroll Arms Hotel across the street.
Visibly grayer, older and as sardonic as ever, McCarthy allows: "It won't make much difference. I can do everything from the Carroll Arms that I can do from the Senate building." He cannot even have a cocktail without making philosophical distinctions. Sitting recently in a Washington restaurant, he observed: "Gin damages the liver. Vodka affects the brain." Then, with...
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