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The Wisdom of Silence. This summer, when Congress has adjourned, Speaker Martin will slip off to the family bungalow at Cape Cod's Sagamore Beach. There he will take dips in the bay and look out from the veranda toward the Pilgrims' Monument at Provincetown. He will be thinking about the coming election, planning a speaking tour or two and receiving a constant stream of political big-and little-wigs. Does Joe Martin think he will still be Speaker of the House after November's election? Where does he think the Republicans will win seats? Says he, "You don't tell the world where you find your huckleberries, if you've got any sense."
* Other recent Martinisms: once, when Sam Rayburn addressed the Chair, Martin declared: "The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Rayburn, Mr. Texas." In a foreign-policy speech to the House, Martin made a ringing demand for the restoration of sovereignty to West Virginia. (He meant West Germany.)