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...best people in Kansas City were for it. The evening Star urged its passage in front-page editorials on five different days. The Chamber of Commerce, labor unions and most church groups added their agreement. About the only organized opposition came from the Kansas City Tavern Owners' Association, whose president, Charles Geneva, predicted: "In the privacy of the voting booth, a lot of people will vote against this racial bill...
Last Thursday the Northerners nearly failed to muster a quorum. Fortunately, several of their Dixie colleagues strode into the chamber at the last moment, drawled "present," and spared the nascent coalition an embarrassing setback. Last Saturday morning however, Southern generosity evaporated and the Senate adjourned, without a quorum, after forty-five minutes of self-conscious foot-shuffling by the leadership. Senator Humphrey's commitment and energy haven't flagged. After last week, the same is hard to say of the men he is trying to lead...
Just how the U.S. should adapt its foreign policies to meet the changed situation has not yet become the subject of a Great Debate. But it has stirred up a lot of talk, and one who had his say last week, in the nearly empty chamber of the U.S. Senate, was Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright...
...innermost tube (see diagram) goes into the stomach so that any escaped blood can be suctioned off. The second, with a balloon on its end, goes just inside the stomach, where it is inflated to serve as an anchor. The third chamber is a sausage-shaped balloon nine inches long, which is inflated in the gullet. Its pressure against the varices stops the bleeding...
When testers complained at first of overheated feet, Du Pont changed the porosity of the material, which now has a million holes per sq. ft. At New burgh, torture-chamber machines bend the Corfam shoes millions of times, tear pieces of Corfam apart at high tension and abrasively duplicate the rubbing action of heels against shoe backs...