Word: attackers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motion to proceed to the consideration of any motion, resolution, or proposal to change any of the Standing Rules of the Senate." Translation: there can be no cloture on any debate about changing Senate rules, including Rule XXII. It is the Russell Amendment that shapes the strategy of the attack against Rule XXII...
...Attack. The strategy of 1959 revolves around the question of whether the Senate, with two-thirds of its membership holding over from election to election, is a "continuing body." If not, then its rules cannot go over from Congress to Congress. Along that line of reasoning, the opponents of Rule XXII worked out the following steps...
Fidel Castro Ruz, 32, the rebel chief, is a nonpracticing lawyer who began fighting Batista in 1953 by leading a frontal attack on Moncada barracks in Santiago. He named his 26th of July movement for the day the attack failed, went into Mexican exile, returned to invade Oriente province with 81 men aboard the yacht Gramma on Dec. 2, 1956. Castro likes to sit about a campfire and talk military science, citing Rommel and Napoleon, and discussing romantic proposals for Cuba, e.g., a school-city for 20,000 children. In 1953 he called for nationalization of U.S.-owned public utilities...
...girls," he grinned. In voluble Spanish Gonzales suggested Olmedo's strategy: keep the ball low on the wet court, use lobs to drive Cooper back from the net, move around to upset the Aussie's second service. It worked. Charging to the net, the Chief forced the attack, punched his volleys accurately, won 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 8-6. Almost single-handed Alex Olmedo had won the Davis...
...Captain Lou Jordan, who is the leading scorer and playmaker, Cornell has not yet jelled its attack plan, but has already shown signs of coming around...