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...chamber became suspended in a cathedral-like hush. Nobody coughed. Nobody whispered. Nobody rustled. The only sound was a product of the silence -the faint click-click of photographers' cameras that was audible clear across the chamber...
...delay, or no hesitation, or no compromise with our purpose!" Slowly at first, then like a great wave, the applause grew. After a long minute. Emanuel Celler of New York, dean of the House and a longtime civil libertarian, jumped to his feet, bringing others in the chamber to their feet with him, Democrats first, then Republicans. For 30 seconds they stood, pouring out a Niagara of applause...
...manned the barricades against the Negro advance by voting against key civil rights bills. There was no question now that he was involved. In his address, he illuminated that involvement in a revealing statement by which he hoped history would judge him (see box). He strode from the chamber a changed man, confident in that hope, certain that he had launched the U.S. itself inexorably toward a new purpose...
Beyond this great chamber-out yonder-in 50 states are the people that we serve. Who can tell what deep and unspoken hopes are in their hearts tonight as they sit there and listen? We can all guess, from our own lives, how difficult they often find their own pursuit of happiness; how many problems each little family has. They look most of all to themselves for their future, but I think that they also look to each...
...desultory afternoon last week, New York's Democratic Congressman Emanuel Celler, 76, rose in the sparsely populated House chamber to perform a labor of love. Celler's task: to speak on his bill outlawing gerrymandering of congressional districts. It was a subject close to Manny Celler's old Brooklyn heart...