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After a whirlwind tour of the West with Campaigner Lyndon B. Johnson, CBS Correspondent Dan Rather got back to Washington for a breather. There, his boss, News Director William Small, wanted to know how the campaign seemed to be going. Rather could not say. At today's pace, he explained, "you don't have time to get the sense, the smell of the campaign. You whip in and whip...
...principle. To Dirksen, arguments about that issue are "hogwash" and the only question is "whether the Federal Government-in this case the judicial branch-under the Constitution has the right and the authority to dictate the composition of state legislatures." Dirksen called on his colleagues to back the "Dirksen breather"-a rider attached to the $3.3 billion foreign aid bill that would delay states' compliance with the court ruling for two years. In the interim, Dirksen meant to promote a constitutional amendment permanently preventing federal courts from ruling on state legislative apportionment...
...tried to invoke cloture, he failed. The filibustering liberals were joined in their nay votes by Southern Democrats who, although for the rider, defend filibusters as a matter of principle. Therefore the cloture motion lost, 63 to 30. The vote plainly did not reflect Senate sentiment about the Dirksen breather, as such, and on a subsequent motion to kill Dirksen's rider for good by tabling it, 49 Senators voted to keep it alive, with 38 against...
...tribal chiefs, who represent thousands of Africans and yet are loyal to any colonial government. "I don't wish to mislead the British government," he said. "I must not pull a fast one." Fast or slow, the two Prime Ministers had won themselves a bit of a breather...
Tempers calmed slightly in Athens and Ankara. Turkey made the gesture of returning to NATO control the U.S.-built planes it had used to bomb and strafe Cyprus. Greece, which had also withdrawn units from NATO, followed suit. Cyprus itself had a breather. Though still calling down curses on Turkey for its recent air strikes, Makarios relaxed somewhat the blockade thrown around the Turkish Cypriot communities. For the first time in two weeks, running water was restored to the huddled refugees in Ktima, and badly needed fuel was delivered to Turkish Cypriot bakeries in Nicosia...