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...aptitudes for their work. It is with chagrin that I confess a growing conviction that Senator McCarthy-a damned-Yankee, and a Roman Catholic one at that-just about has it made as the Exalted Kleagle and Imperial Wizard of all the Demagogues. The shades of Heflin and Bilbo-aye, even that of the superb Huey Long, must stand in their limbos with reverent awe at the spectacle of the meretricious antics of McCarthy...
...straggled Nevada's Republican Senator George Malone to register a ringing aye. Then came Joe McCarthy (who is usually late for roll calls) and Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers. Both were for the amendment. The count: 60 to 28−still more than enough for passage. But two other latecomers, Pennsylvania's Republican Senator James Duff and Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney, arrived just in time to vote against the measure. That made it 60-30−precisely two-thirds. Vice President Richard Nixon, presiding, took a long slow look around the chamber...
...fireworks. Every one of the 64 resolutions presented to the delegates passed with little or no opposition. Bathed in floodlights while cameras reeled up movies for TV, Reuther ticked off resolutions as though he were counting nickels: "Is there discussion? No discussion. All in favor say aye. Motion carried unanimously...
...skill and authority with which Ruiz Cortines carried it out. Mild and unassuming personally, the new President nevertheless grasped his great powers firmly. His methods reminded one subordinate of the story of Abraham Lincoln polling his Cabinet, finding all eight opposed to his view, then announcing: "Eight nays, one aye; the ayes have it." Though he has held only two Cabinet meetings since taking office...
...government to state . . . that we are willing to give the U.N. the utmost cooperation in achieving that objective." Burma thanked the Assembly "for its moral backing." The Mexican resolution carried unanimously, 59 to 0 (China abstaining). The U.S. and Russia, who rarely agree on anything at U.N., voted aye...