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...week Adam Clayton Powell kept New York in an uproar over whether he would return to Harlem from his Bimini exile on Palm Sunday. In the end, he disappointed his followers by deciding to tarry a while in his island sanctuary...
...Tetched." In 1962, Meredith risked his life in the battle to integrate the University of Mississippi. Last year, while taking a "march against fear" through his home state, he had shotgun pellets fired into him by a white racist. But from far-off Bimini, Powell, whose zestful pursuit of the sporting life has betrayed the Negroes' trust in him for years, branded Meredith as the "white man's candidate...
...dizzying, nonetheless. Missouri Republican Thomas Curtis denounced Powell for "embezzlement and forgery, not to mention such things as scofflaw actions." To objections from scattered Representatives that the censure proposal would constitute "annihilation by humiliation," South Carolina Republican Albert Watson replied: "As far as I know, he is down in Bimini with a glass in one hand and a woman in the other. Can you think a man so calloused would be humiliated...
Natural Resources. "If just once," observed Florida Democrat Sam Gibbons afterward, "Adam had come in and said, I made a mistake,' things might have turned out differently." But throughout, Powell was being-Powell. While the House wrangled over his fate, he spent the afternoon playing dominoes in Bimini's End of the World bar, sipping "cowbells" (milk laced with Scotch) supplied by reporters. "If I'm excluded," he said philosophically, "I'll be happy all the time. If I'm not excluded, I'll be happy all the time...
Through the week, Adam kept up his high spirits. He led barroom hymn sessions, kidded with reporters, took dockside strolls to survey Bimini's natural resources ("Is that all you? he asked one girl in a tight sweater who sauntered past). There was at least some good news to justify his buoyant mood. Exclusion made him eligible for a $15,000 pension-half his regular congressional salary. Better yet, the New York Court of Appeals, highest in the state, lopped $100,000 off the outstanding libel judgment against him and ordered a lower court to reconsider another part...