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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...
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...
...never heard of her," Celler said in a New York Post interview. As far as I'm concerned she's a nonentity.... I don't know anything about this lady. She doesn't exist, as far as I'm concerned...
...going to win," she said. "I wouldn't ask people to put their time and energy on this if I didn't think I was going to win." Holtzman is Celler's sole opponent, and winning the Democratic primary virtually guarantees election in November from the heavily Democratic Tenth District...