GOOU EVENING EVERYBODY: It doesn't happen often - but in ~ashington today ever~ ~enator was in his seat. All - ~ one-hundred of the ■• Galleries - crowded too. lncluding mau7 member• of The House; also Congreasional employees who were oft duty. . The atmosphere tense during the roll call - the vote on the Medicare Bill. The ■ uch debated ad ■ inistra bill that was turned down toda7 - by a vote ot titt7-two to forty-eight. Administration backer ■ unable to win over the few votes - that would have changed the outco■ e. And so - the Medicare Bill is dead, for this 7ear. President Kennedy experiencing - his ■oat serioua setback since he went into office. Whereupon word ca■e fro ■ The White House that this will be made a ■ aJor isaue - in the coming Congressional election. President Kennec!J adding_ that he'll send the measure back to Capitol Hill in JanuarY. Bi,BLll Even as i>reaident Kennedy called in the Soviet Ambassador today ~oviet planes were renewing their harrasaing tactics along the air corridor to Berlin. Buzzing allied aircraft - for the first ti ■ e since last March. The ■ oat dangerous incident - a Soviet jet, aaking a paaa at an American passenger plane. The iuaaian t') ilot, flying o . n.ly a few feet away for a minute or more - till he dropped off, and disappeared. American authorities iD leat Berlin - prote1tin1. P resident ~ennecl7, tr7ing to find out fro■ A■baaaador Dobr7nin - Jaat what IhruabcheT is up to now. The Sov.iet habit of distorting the truth in subtlt • ay e - so• et i • e e no t e o sub t 1 e , e i the r - i a sh o • n by the official text of that latest interview at the Ire ■ lin. Ihrushchev, talking with a group ot American newsmen. The Americana keeping notes on the conversation - and today comparing their notes with the text issued by the lre ■ lin. One quest.ion began - •Have the Soviet people been told? Today this appeared as - •oo the Soviet people know?• The change - significant. lf they haven't. been told, then their govern■ ent is : withholding infor■ ation that should be given to the■. lf they si ■ ply don't know - well, that would be because they don't read the newspapers, or listen to Co■rade Khrushchev, or whatever. The questions went on to mention - thoae forty Soviet aLoaic expliaiona in the atmosphere. The Ire ■ lin !HBUSHCHEV - 2 . . text deleting the phrase - •in the atmosphere.• Giving the false impression - that there has been no danger of radioactive fallout from the Soviet testing gro-nda in Siberia. At one point, KhrusbcheY asked his visitors - if they had been restricted while touring the Soviet Union. They answered, unanimously - •yea•. The lremlin text ■ akes all the Americans except one - answer •no.• And several other examples of the touching up they did. The •re ■lia, distorting the trut~ - before letting the Soviet people see it. CONGO If you are looking for irony in international affairs, you don't have to go any farther than Katanga • in the Congo. The irony - no, it's not the fact that ten-thousand people rioted in Elizabethville, Or even the fact - that most of the rioters were wo ■ en. The iron . ic note was in the slogan they chanted. The wo ■ en of Iatanga, surging against - a U.I. roadblock, shouting - •u.B. go home!• And:- •bring back the Belgians!• Many of the rioters telling newsmen - the old colonial syate■ really wasn't so bad. Then the shopa were full, the workers had jobs - and the Russians ne•er interfered i . n Congolese affairs. Bow the cry in Elizabethville - •Bring back the Belgians!• JEPAL That mu s t have been a moving spectacle today - in Katmandu. Dr. Toni Hagen of the ~wiss Aid M ission was s p eaking to a crowd of Tibetan refugees, bidding the ■ farewell - after twelve years of working among the■• The Tibetans - weeping and protesting. Begging their benefactor - to stay. But what could he do in the face of - an order from the government of ~epal? ~r. Hagen, accused ot runnin g guns to the rebellious Ihambas across the border in Tibet. Vr. Hagen, ordered out of ~epal. The Swiss philanthropist calls the charge - •talse! MischieYous! Capitulation to p ressure fro ■ Red ~hina.• But he has been ordered to leave Iatmandu - for India, ■uch to the sorrow of the tibetan refugees he has served for over a decade. ]2BOUGliT The drought in the East is so bad - that ten New Xork counties haye been declared disaster areas. The past ten weeks, with practically no rain - parching the farms. Causing the crops to wither. Causing streaa1 to subside - to the lowest levels in a decade. The Weather li ure au in eastern Pennsylvania says - •The worst drought of the century.• 1-15 When U ajor Bob i•hite hit the "Top• of his flight arc today, he was higher than the poi~t where our astronauts curved out into orbit. The Air Force major, gunning his X-15 up and up - until he was 58 miles a~ove the Mojave Desert. Highest ever - for a pilot in a plane. As he zoomed over the •top• of bis flight arc - he became weightless for a moment - there at the edge of space - where he could see all the wa7 fro ■ Canada to Mexico. He also saw what he termed •a JDJlterioue object• - like a p iece of paper, the size ot his hand. This object, thirty feet away - flying along with the rocket p lane for several seconds. After which, it vanished. The major circled down - at six times the speed of sound. America's •winged astronaut• - fifth man to qualify for the Space Medal. first there were John Glenn, Scott ~arpenter, Alan ~hepard, and Gus ~rissom, who rode the big rockets. Now, joining them - Major Bob White in the X-15. Meanwhile, there's a chance that the first ■en on the ■oon will have the happy experience - of findln1 the ladies alread7 there. Thirteen A ■ tro11tt11 who ha•• passed •••ry aetroaaut teat - are bidding tor place■ aboard our apace ahipa. Carr7ing their caa• - to Capitol Bill, to Congr•••· Chief ■ pokeaaan for the Aatronette ■ - Mra. Jane7 Bart., wit• of t.h• Sena t,or fro11 llichi1an. Saicl Mra. Bart,: - ••hJ ahould out,er apace be 11 ■ ta1 club?• Th•• \he ladi•• wit,h apace aspiration• - ticked off the ad•antaa•• of woaen o••r aen. The ladi•• ••l1biq l••• - ia \hat ao?! - lesa affected by ■onotory - and reaiat, radiation better. That last aounda intereating. lo ■en not ao radioac t ive a ■ ■en? l'd have thought aurely it••• ttie other way around. low Dick? The latest Florentine fashion, froa th• liver Arno, is described as - •unusual.• Something of an under ■ tatement - to judge troa the Florence di1patcb. Subject - wigs for woaen. nere'a th• one - that attracted ■oat attention. An enor■ou1 apher• - color •Persian orana••• uown the front a •1heepdog bang,• COYering - ODe . , , . So, Ii-lady i t you want the late ■ t how about aD orana• colored 1pberical wi1 fro■ florenoe, with that 1beepdo1 ba•I•