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...Senator Estes Kefauver, long a banner-waving Democratic liberal, but running for re-election this year in segregation-prone Tennessee, suddenly chose to attack the vital voting-rights heart of the bill with a crippling amendment. In the Judiciary Committee, Kefauver proposed an amendment that would change a would-be Negro voter's private hearing before the voting referee into a public hearing open to challenge by local officials. By the time civil rights partisans realized that this would gut the strongest part of the bill, Dixie Senators had rushed Kefauver's amendment through committee...
Flat Denial. In Paris, the crack about Napoleon brought cries of British perfidy; in Bonn, banner headlines screamed...
...care. Clinging together for mutual support, they met weekdays as the Vicious Circle, a social group that lunched at the Algonquin Hotel and traded mots and puns, Saturday nights over the poker table of the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club. Of them all, none set journalism's banner higher than the cigar-smoking, pool-playing little gargoyle with the long neck and the big nose and the bushy mustache: F.P.A...
...shrink to two-page flyers, printed twice a week in obedience to a law that revokes the franchise of any newspaper less regular. But come election time, Beirut's papers turn daily and take on weight. Last week, on the eve of Lebanese national elections, Al Beiraq (The Banner), one of Beirut's more successful publications (circ. 6,000), unabashedly front-paged an explanation of what makes Beirut's papers grow at voting time...
...advocate a third party, but a coalition of voters with common convictions, men and women of both major parties joined together under a new banner, balanced against the remaining left wing of the Democratic Party...