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...sales are running 20% ahead of last year. The N.F.L. and the American Football League have kissed and made up, which means that Commissioner Pete Rozelle is now free to entertain antitrust suits by impoverished players and would-be franchise owners-while he simultaneously tries to sell Congressman Emanuel Celler on legislation that would exempt pro football from antitrust actions...
Distrust and fear are by no means limited to the lower-income groups. As Brooklyn's Democratic Congressman Emanuel Celler, long a champion of civil rights, sees it, the chief problem is "a dislike of the unlike." Says Celler: "The Irish don't like to live among the Poles. It's the same situation." Last month, when A. Gordon Wright, Midwest director of the Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration and the son of a millionaire, moved into exclusive Grosse Pointe, Mich. (median income: $11,200), whites drove past his house screaming, "Nigger, get out!" When...
...substitute clause is that it would permit other owners to make two discriminatory transactions in a single year, but would make a third such sale illegal; large-scale real estate operators would thus find it difficult to segregate big apartments or tracts. Almost apologetically, Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn noted afterward: "All good legislation is the result of compromise. The bill without the Mathias amendment would be like having a wine cellar without a corkscrew...
...concern. The company, now housed in Lincoln Center, stands to lose $500,000 per annum in rent on the proposed office building; worse yet, the Met would have to pay a pretty penny just to keep its old home in repair. Taking all that into account, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, 78, reported con brio in the U.S. House of Representatives: "By saving the building, they may destroy opera in New York." Besides, "some of the members of this citizens' group would think Puccini was the name of a spaghetti...
Rump Groups. Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler, serving his 22nd term, made another point by reading to Katzenbach a passage from Madison's Federalist Papers urging "frequent elections" for House members to ensure their "immediate dependency" on the people...