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...debate, it was apparent that the forces of the segregationist South were beaten-and knew it. "The way things are," North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin said wryly, "I don't think I could even get a denunciation of the Crucifixion in the bill." When Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell, field general for the segregationists in a dozen civil rights battles of yore, returned to the Senate chamber from a long illness the day before the cloture motion came to a vote, he needed no more than a glance to see that the cause was hopeless. "If there...
...Question Is . . ." Mansfield's time ran out, and he relinquished the floor to Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell, leader of the Democratic bloc that had been filibustering against the most far-reaching civil rights bill in U.S. history. Russell was about to go down in defeat, and he knew it. But his final-hour plea was urgent. Said he: "If this bill is enacted into law, next year we will be confronted with new demands for enactment of further legislation in this field, such as laws requiring open housing and the bussing of children. The country is becoming enmeshed...
...FASTEST-GROWING COUNTY: Brevard County, Fla., home of Cape Canaveral and its rocket pads, which jumped from 23,653 to 111,435 between...
...week, and 76% of them come to settle permanently. In the '503. Florida's population grew 79% (v. 19% for the U.S. as a whole), outpacing every other state. Last year its new citizens demanded 104,000 new dwellings, a pace that jolted one once-sleepy county - Brevard-into becoming the fastest-growing U.S. county. New industries are pouring in (881 new plants last year alone), and the state's income from manufacturing, farming and construction finally equals the income from its weather-dependent tourist and service industries. Beyond Florida's tawdry nightclubs, neon fagades...
...Georgia's rural woolhats, led by U.S. Senator Richard Brevard Russell of Winder (pop. 4,604), marched on Atlanta (pop. 510,000) to try to scare city moderates out of complying with a certain-to-come federal integration order. "I want to invite the people of Atlanta back into Georgia!" cried pone-shaped Politician-Publisher Roy V. Harris. "Our greatest battle is against the quislings...