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Georgia's Richard Russell rose in the crowded Senate chamber last week and surveyed his club with fatherly approval. The Senate, drawled Russell, is "a bulwark against precipitate action inspired by the unthinking passions of a great mob." The "great mob" in this case included the Kennedy Administration, the Senate leadership of both parties, the Civil Rights Commission and most U.S. Senators. They wanted to destroy the literacy test, the South's most effective device for denying the vote to Negroes. And Russell's tightly disciplined team of filibustering Southern Democrats held the bulwark with ease...
...like the Colosseum; he looks like a ruin but he'll be around for a long time." Last week slight, silver-haired Segni, 71, proved the accuracy of the description. He outlasted his rivals during five days of cutthroat politicking and nine closely contested ballots in the Chamber of Deputies, was finally elected to a seven-year term as President of Italy. Quipped Antonio Segni's partisans in a somewhat blasphemous parody of the miraculous vision that came to the Emperor Constantine as he marched on Rome in the 4th century: In hoc Segni vinces...
...fellow Christian Democrat Premier Amintore Fanfani, who had recently picked staunchly pro-Western Segni as Foreign Minister to balance his new center-left coalition, the much debated apertura a sinistra. Fanfani figured that by stubbornly clinging to about 40 votes that Segni needed to win, the deadlocked chamber would promote him to chief of state...
Said the President: "All the segments [of the economy], including the national Government, must operate responsibly in terms of each other, or the balance which sustains the general welfare will be lost.'' The President told the Chamber that he hoped the steel crisis would mark "a turning point'' for the better in relations between business and Government...
Echoes of F.D.R. The prospect is already evoking alarmed outcries from both labor and management. In California last week, the leader of an aerospace union grumbled: ''We have got to the point where we are using wartime controls in peacetime." At the U.S. Chamber of Commerce meeting, outgoing President Richard Wagner, a Chicago oil executive, even more bluntly declared: "We should remember that dictators in other lands usually came to power under accepted constitutional procedures established as a result of the erosion of sound constitutional principles." In Wagner's speech, and in many a private conversation among...