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Show The Senate's Top 10 Movers And Shakers' DESERET NEWS, A 23 June 6, : 1969 By STEVE GERSTEL OUR MAN JONES United Press international 7 WASHINGTON Politics never could be regarded as one of the exact sciences, but it does share with physics the basic natural law that nothing moves unless something pushes it. We Almost Lost One The U.S. Senate, for example, is a body naturally at rest, and it is famous for doing nothing unless someone gives it a shove. In the past, men like Henry Clay, Thaddeus Stevens,, Robert Taft and Lyndon B. Johnson became rational figures as movers and shakers of the Good Man By HARRY JONES Today, no one man either leads or drives the Senate. Rather, a small group of Democrats and Republicans, some known to every television viewer and some practically anonymous, hold and use the power to m?ke things happen in the Senate. John F. Kennedy had a favorite story about one of the Senates most effective, but least apparent, power brokers: He comes into the Senate late in tne afternoon , . . when he rises most of the Senate has left. He sends his messages up to the desk and everyone says Whats in it? Then he says Its nothing imporand the Grand Coulee Dam is tant O.) Just so you wont get the Idea from the movies that newspapering is all trench coats, big expense accounts and Iff very little work, let me tell you about tl our chief photographer. Xi Don Gravston is a quiet, but efficient sort of a guy. Don was given an assignment from the city editor the other day. It read: Get picture of three television sets, maybe with kids in picture or some humorous set-uThe televisions are just yir. there amidst some trees. Might sitting make a good human interest story." ;w The grove of trees was on the west fti side of town. I said that Don was a quiet guy, but he has loud tastes in autos . . . like extra bright built. ., d, Russell B. Long, John Sherman John J. Williams, and John B. Stennis, Cooper, also make many lists. This is not a list, in order, of the 10 senators who can do the best job of getting a bill passed, a policy changed or a friend appointed to a federal job. Senate power is too abstract to be precisely defined, but it exists and these men have it because the people who work with and for them say they do. It is possible, however, to chart a rough order of precedence among the Senate powers. Foremost would be Dirksen, whose rumpled hair and organ pitched voice have made him one of the most widely known men in American government, and Russell, the senior Southerner who has always preferred to work in the background, but nevertheless gets more done than any three or four other senators whose faces appear frequently in the papers and on television. After these two powers among the powerful, the ranking would be Mans- ., ., soft-spok- , B I James Eastland John Williams Russell Long field, Magnuson and Kennedy, not necessarily in that order. None of these men, however, has anything like the power Lyndon B. Johnson held as Senate Democratic Leader in the 1950s. When Johnson left, the authority he held to himself became so diffused that it is hard to imagine any of the current power brokers being able to assemble it again. All of todays contenders have a vehicle for power either a party leadership post, as in the case of Dirksen and Mansfield, or committee chairmanships like Russell and Magnuson. B. Long, certainly exercises vast power as chairman of the finance committee, but there is a feeling that if the Republicans ever take control of the Senate, Long would lose most of his aura of power. There are some Senate observers who consider Williams, the ranking Republican on the finance committee, more powerful than Long. There may be a few, such as Cooper, who have no base but whose judgment is so highly valued that they command power. Sen. George D. Aiken, ., may be another. Although Sen. J. William Fulbright, The exception is Edward Kennedy, was not mentioned, he parlayed who still is more an emerging power his chairmanship of the Senate Foreign than an established one. His power deRelations Committee into an instrument rives only slightly from the post of assistof considerable power last year which ant to Mansfield and much more from should have given him some ranking. the national political constituency which However, Fulbrights influence seems to he inherited from his brothers. be much stronger outside the Senate than The need for such a vehicle is demamong his colleagues. onstrated in the case of Sen. Edmund S. There is also the exercise of negative who has all the other Muskie, power. Eastland is the master of bis art prerequisites for power. He has respect, When Thurgood Marshall was first is considered and diligent, to a federal judgeship, East-lan- d appointed and is an able floor manager for legisladelayed confirmation for about a tion. year simply by refusing to schedule a ut Muskie, the 1968 Democratic vice hearing by his judiciary committee. In presidential candidate, has declined to the last decade, operating with a majoriseek a leadership post and his seniority senators, Eastland has ty of leaves him well down the list on Senate managed to bottle up countless civil committees. rights bills by simply ignoring them. There are others who have power only But with the election of more and because they are chairmen. Sen. Russell more Democratic liberals, Big Jim ., hard-workin- g d John Cooper .it Check Trunks By LAVORK. CHAFFIN Now For Deseret News Education Editor Tree Borers The public, which will have to pay the bill, is likely to be the last to learn anything substantial about this years tea cher -- school board salary tiations. nego- Both the teach--e r as sociations and the boards of YOUR SCHOOLS arena if, indeed, anything at all Is going on. Reports can be heard that several districts have settled with teachers but dont want to announce their action. The only districts to announce a settlement are Daggett and Wayne involving fewer than 50 teachers. A n yway, Don drove to the area . . . located the trees. He couldnt John Stennis locate frame a bill in his office, and for persuasion for votes. His power was never more apparent than in the 1964 and 1965, and to a lesser extent, the 1968 civil rights bills when he alone could provide the votes to end the traditional Southern filibuster which made passage impossible. There are some who feel that the powers of Russell and Dirksen have waned. The Georgian has been plagued in recent years by emphysema, although he appears better now than for some time. Also, his Southern bloc is no longer solid, coming together only on civil rights lost absolute control of his committee and now, at best, has a stand-of- man-to-ma- f. No man has more power bases in the Senate than Richard Brevard Russell, the courtly Georsoft-spok- gian. Russell is the dean of the Senate; the chairman of the appropriations committee; the Senates military expert; the leader in the Southern bloc; and, by far, the best parliamentary tactician in the body. But much of Russells power derives from what one Senate aide called great personal respect and such stature that he can change votes simply by announc- n issues. Dirksen, also not in the best of physical shape, can no longer control Senate as he once did because Republicans many of the newer, younger members are more moderate than the conservative stalwarts of the past. In the Senate, power comes very, very slowly, except in the case of someone like Kennedy who draws from an outside source and has the fortune to take over a basically leaderless band of liberals. Russell has been in the Senate 33 years and Dirksen 18. Mansfield, Magnuson, and the rest of todays power, are also veterans. As they fade, todays big powers will be replaced by the mostly senators uninfluential one and now working in anonymity. There may even be another Johnson among them. ing his personal position. This aide, who counts votes reasonably well, said if Russell had opposed missile deployment of the system (ABM) last year, the Senate would have followed him. Unlike Russell, who prefers to exert power in a quiet and restrained fashion far from the limelight, Dirksen revels in publicity. Illinois The power of the Republican, who just won stems, of course, from his post as Republican leader and to a secondary degree from high rank on the judiciary and fi' nance committees. To a great extent Dirksens is an exposed, naked sort of power displayed in emotional appeals for support on the floor; in calling together factions to little-know- two-ter- MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Speed Up Those Negotiations Check your peaches, plums and apricots for heavy gummy discharges showing at the bases or soil line of the tree. If you find gum, its probably being caused by peach tree borers (Sanninoidea moth The adult is a wasp-lik- e active which is seldom seen, only being j . red. YO UR GARDEN By DAVID E. LOFGREN Deseret News Consultant 10 ') Senate. The late president, a man who appreciated (and never had) power in the Senate, was talking about Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, a rotund Washington Democrat who heads the Senate Commerce Committee and seldom gets headlines. But whenever veteran Senate aides and reporters get to talking about the men who really swing the hammers of power in the Senate, Magnuson makes the list. He doesnt make a lot of noise, but he makes things happen. There is no official list of the 10 most powerful senators. But there is a working consensus among those who watch the Senate closest Senators Richard B. Russell, Mike MansEverett M. Dirksen, ., Edward M. Kennedy, field, and Magnuson are most frequently mentioned. Sens. James 0. East-lan- ) Some comments on negotiations that do come to the surface here and there indicate that this years talks will center almost exclusively on matters of teacher welfare. Items of negotiation will deal with such things (besides salaries) as class size, sick leave, grievance procedures, insurance programs and work schedules. An interesting twist is that teachers want both an increase in pay and a reduction in class size. The two demands work against each other. Actions of the 1969 Legislature have pretty well established the levels of local school budgets. In simple terms, the amount of money available in most districts is fixed. Its a constant which cannot, in most cases, be changed by negotiation. It takes money, lots of money, to make even moderate reductions in class size. The more it takes to reduce class load, the less there is to raise salaries. Because the budgets are fixed, both the teachers and school boards should get to work and complete negotiations swiftly. Surely the public deserves more consideration in this regard than it cur- The Failure Of Rocky's Latin Mission By DREW PEARSON and JACK ANDERSON 5 The failure of Gov. Nelson Rockefemission' to Latin America is more llers education are serious than the headlines indicate, and ing like bashful and r e 1 uctant the headlines have been pretty bad. swains. They dont The situation is comparable to the want anybody else closing days of the Eisenhower Adminiswhat to know h e yr e tration when riots in t doing, t. in this area from late June to saying, promising or threatening. became so dangerous that PresiJapan The borer is a soft white worm with a Wasatch Front teacher leaders meet dent Eisenhower, then in Manila, had to light brown head. This worm can grow regularly to plan their strategy and coorcancel the remainder of his trip through dinate their actions. At the same time, $1,000 increase. up to an inch in length. die Far East. Wasatch Front superintendents also meet Very nearly the only thing which can In our area eggs are laid from about Today, Nelson Rockefeller, who for in hopes of maintaining a unified posi- be said about negotiations with certainty and at this time tion. has been a great hero in Latin July 1 to years is that both the teachers and school has had to cancel his trip to America, the pest can be controlled with DDT Wasatch Front citizens know very litin boards words the of one observer, are, of base a country where he has built Venezuela, and the trunk on or paint tle of whats going on in the negotiations spray rently is receiving. dragging their feet supermarkets, and where he owns a the tree. But now, with the worm inside hotel, a plantation and a home. the tree boring its way under the bark, few fumia and Inside reasons why the Rockefeller knife a besides pocket things mission has been a failure are: gant will control this vicious tree killer. 1. President Nixons speech on student The safest and surest way to control in which he made slurring remarks riots first to is this pest now (and do it soon) Latin American education, regarding in tree fruit your stone inspect every one of the most inferior sysit calling HAROLD LUNDSTROM Even the By both flowering contemporary though today's MUSICAL WHIRL yard. This will include music has its own styles and idioms, Mr. tems of education anywhere in the Deseret News Music Editor and the fruiting varieties of peaches, world. This was bitterly resented by Robison is amazed at how many composplums, cherries, apricots, and nectarines American university. Latin every is use devices music that date ers Unsingable contemporary compositional as well as flowering almonds. 2. President Nixons speech on Pan some microscopic scrutiny by a the 11th to the 16th centuries. who was a member of the from getting Richard, Pull all the grass, weeds, etc., and a music doctoral candidate down at BYU Fred Just as the scholars do in the other American Day, April 14, struck a sour Waring Chorus during the 1952-5little soil away from the base of each in Provo. note. He kissed off the Alliance for Progsciences, been has todays composers are hunting ress and season, studying representative tree to expose about 1" of previously a gave no promises for further back for different. Through They go something works of American composers who have covered trunk. If any signs of gummiAmerican Pan rarely-givemusic cooperation. in their exploratory efforts to the modes ness are found, dig the soil out 2 deep grant by the U.S. resided in the United States since they of 3. The military junta in Peru has been one source of new and as antiquity were at least 26 years of age. and 6 to 10 away on all sides, forming Department of propaganIntensifying its unrestricted ideas. a shallow basin around the base of the Health, Education, da throughout Latin America. Chosen on the basis of distinct musiAnother source is polytonality. tree. and Welfare, Richwaited 4. The Nixon Administration cal idioms, the compositions are being Traditional music has typically folard Robison is and to appoint an Assistant Secrethe Then carefully scrape all gum analyzed for unique troublesome musical lowed rhythmic patterns of four, eight, until April for Latin American Affairs. Meanloose grass away to expose the holes studying why features. How these features relate to the and 12. Todays rhythmic patterns of tary no efforts were made to have of contemskills of the performers musical under-- . while, where the borer is at work. Next make a much dif13 cause further also ar.d five, seven, porary music is Johnson specialists on Latin America crystals ring of paradichlorobensene standing and also to the singers ficulty for todays singers coping with difficult to sing for continue. will be Then determined. around the tree between 1 to 2 Inches performance music. contemporary most high school out from the trunk. This should take 5. The White House let one of the procedures and methods to develop these Mr. Robison cites that an example of and college choirs. skills to a higher performance level will of crystals for a 6 about a loose ablest ambassadors to the Organization most limitations and inborn concerned the musician culturally Every singer be recommended. diameter tree trunk. These crystals do of the American States, Sol Linowitz, Americans possess is manifest in singing with vocal and choral music knows that their job by evaporating and filling the retire and hesitated a iong time in findOne of the grant will be to the first line of "America mnsic has unique idioms My counholes with a gas toxic to insects. To contemporary a replacement. ing ThL C. in of of tis thee the tonalities and scale progressions are validate the methods and procedures deis key try make this effective, heap a mound of soil more 6. himsef, Finally, Rockefeller, an Ionian mode, today called major expanded, rhythms are asymmetriveloped from the study through an experup around the base of the tree in an cal, and intervals more dissonant. imental design. Hopefully, says Rich- mode. If a singer started the song one delayed four months before starting his inverted cone two the outer surface patRichard points out, Much modem ard, this study will bring about better note lower, at B, and then tried to sing trip and then allotted only a day or ted smooth to help hold in the fumes. music is written in a style that was forthe song without sharps or flats, he in each capital. teaching methods that will enable stuwould experience one of the difficulties Unfortunately Latin Americans appreOne good application now should last merly considered performable only by dents to perform the diffirrlt contempobecause of the unfamiliar Intervals and ciate the warm abrazo more than cool, until the first oi July, when it will be time instrumentalists, and it is now being per- rary songs with more accuracy, comprealoof efficiency. melodic line. formed liy vocalists as welL hension, and enjoyment." toeat the trunks wth DDT. act- exi-tios- The Utah Education Association, pushing hard for an average salary increase of $1,000 per teacher is, according to some observers, concentrating on districts most likely to offer the $1,000 raise. This could then be pointed to as evidence that the $1,000 increase is possible. Boards of Education which possibly could meet the $1,000 request are, however, reluctant to settle. They dont want to make life impossible for the districts which cannot give teachers the requested md-Augu- the three idiot tubes so he Mr- - Jones decided to come back to the office. About a block from the grove, Don looked in the rear-viemirror. There was a police car right behind him. It bothered him a little. He looked down at his speedometer, but he wai well below the speed limit Then he did just what you and I have done in similar circumstances he J turned the corner. And the police car followed. Not rally did the police car follow, but another police patrol car got in line from the opposite direction. Suddenly, both cars had the red lights flashing and Don was pulled over. Then other police cars swarmed in like women ojf . iq going to a dress sale. There was no police brutality, but it is a good thing that one of the officers recognized our man Grayston. c, s The police had located the stolen from a dealer. They had placed a stake-ou- t around the area a police surveillance waiting for the burglar to come back for his loot. We were almost one chief photogra- .ai ,',io pher short this week! ... I I . ! boob-tube- ... VLt In case of a police strike in our City of Sait, you might have to do your own the cops just arent minor burglary going to do it for you. Thats the word from Ed Barton, chairman of the Salt Lake City Public Safety Workers. But, I dont think that is exactly what he meant He said during an interview: In event of a strike (police have considered going on strike for higher wages), a skeleton crew would be manned for the emergency situations, but would refuse to perform such sendees as minor burglaries. He meant investigate them! ... 7L 05 W o of. ,f IF ,lf ,h The Elko Centennial is offering a free plush room, lots of fun plus a free steak dinner at the big jamboree on June 29. All yet have to do to qualify is be at least 100 years old, and have a note from your mother. (I'm kidding about the note.) You should have a birth certificate or some other reasonable proof. Ive located six qualifiers. But not one cf them has the teeth to tackle a steak! Y Youll probably have to be close to 100, or watch the extra late, late, late show to remember the Cowboy Hall of i Famer whou be on hand to greet you. r, Hes Joel McCrea. Whos Joel McCrea, Dad? ti i? Wit's End The gal in the office next door with but the mini skirt cant even add she can sure distract! ... , ,T 1(7 , BIG TALK How To Sing Contemporary Easier 3 n fist-fu- ll "I've been following today's rising prices and I think I've been meet- - ta ing quality going in the other di- - If rection!" s oy oonoi V. 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