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Evaporating Indignation? Then there is the question of uniformity in House and Senate rules. Acting admittedly in different circumstances, the House barred Adam Clayton Powell from membership, while Dodd retains both his seat and his seniority.*The Powell case prompted creation of a House ethics committee, which is also supposed to formulate a code of conduct. Mansfield thinks that "the Senate must go ahead on its own. Let the House tend to its own business." Republican Leader Everett Dirksen believes a common document should cover both Houses...
...dreariest, its form is dazzling. Director Timothy Mayer is as brilliant as ever at filling the stage with one arresting tableau after another in cinematic succession, and his imagination never fails him in inventing show-stopping sight-gags, which are the life-energy of low comedy. Set-designer Clayton Koelb has shown a genius for translating these sight-gags into usable pieces of stage machinery...
...Mississippi, evidence does not always equal conviction, especially in civil rights cases. Still, acquittal seemed unlikely last week for eight white men on trial in U.S. District Judge Claude Clayton's court in Oxford. The cause of it all was a wild white mob that undeniably tried to halt school integration in Grenada last fall by flailing Negro schoolchildren with fists, feet, clubs and chains. According to the U.S. prosecutor, the defendants, including a justice of the peace, were part of that mob -and he had 25 witnesses to prove...
That was enough. Judge Clayton urged the jurors to reach a decision "based on the evidence without bias," and the jurors deliberated for 3½ hours. Then in came the verdict: not guilty. The defendants rushed up with handshakes for the jurors; the jurors beamed congratulations. The Government cannot appeal...
...Adam Clayton Powell has made it clear that he will wait for the House to invite him to assume the seat to which he was overwhelmingly reelected, but his erstwhile colleagues are in no hurry to do so. The issue will probably have to be resolved, if anywhere, in the courts...