Word: celler
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...shock waves ran through the streets from Ocean Parkway to the Brooklyn College campus. Emmanuel Celler, 84, dean of the House of Representatives and uncrowned king of Brooklyn's Flatbush section, a battle-hardened old pro who was first elected to Congress during the Warren Harding Administration, had apparently been defeated in the Democratic primary by a bright, brisk young woman 54 years his junior. She is Elizabeth Holtzman, a Harvard Law School graduate who mounted one of the most persistent campaigns against Celler in the history of the highly political area. With 35,000 voting, Miss Holtzman edged...
...course, Liz, as she likes to be called, still has a way to go to get to Washington. The vote was so close that both candidates asked that the ballot boxes be impounded before the official tally is announced this week. Even if his opponent is declared the winner, Celler has the option of running on the Liberal Party ticket in November. That makes Miss Holtzman's victory no less dramatic. She beat Celler at what was once his own game: an oldfashioned, hand-pumping, doorbell-ringing street campaign, aided by a determined group of volunteers. What is more...
...campaign was almost purely one of issues -and age. Says Miss Holtzman: "I was a constituent of his, and I never saw him. He never seemed to attend any of the local meetings." With two years as a state committeewoman behind her, Liz Holtzman sailed into Celler, buttonholing anyone who would listen at supermarkets and subway stops. She attacked him on the basis of absenteeism, and pointed out that he did not even keep an office in Brooklyn. She also blanketed the area with copies of a Jack Anderson column that accused Celler of supporting legislation that benefited an electrical...
Even as the possibility of a major retreat on integration lessened in the Senate, a new threat arose in the House. There the Judiciary Committee, which is chaired by New York Democrat Emanuel Celler, 83, a veteran civil rights advocate, opened hearings on a constitutional amendment, proposed in no fewer than 30 versions, that would ban busing for racial purposes. Confident that the Administration was also opposed to such an amendment, Celler had planned only perfunctorv hearings, expecting the matter to die swiftly. Now, not at all sure of Nixon's eventual stand (the President last week was studying...
Overblown. After allowing several antibusing Congressmen to score oratorical points for the folks back home, Celler turned to the most prominent of the amendment versions. As suggested by New York's first-term Republican Congressman Norman Lent, the amendment would provide that "no public school student shall, because of his race, creed or color, be assigned to or required to attend a particular school." Lent proved a weak witness; Virginia's conservative Republican Richard Poff, whom Nixon has wanted to nominate to the Supreme Court, questioned the ambiguity of the language. "I don't have the best...