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...about Ed Long deepened the gloom of a Senate already embarrassed by the case of Connecticut's Tom Dodd, by the vulgar performance of the other Long, Russell, who stalled legislative proceedings for five weeks over the tax-endowed campaign-fund act, and by the scandal of Adam Clayton Powell on the other side of the Hill...
Whatever "Keep the faith, baby" might mean to Adam Clayton Powell, the phrase is used by most soldiers in Viet Nam to mean, as Negro Captain Clifford Alexander Jr. puts it: "We are fighting over here against the Viet Cong and at home against discrimination; together we can win in both places." The Negro on duty becomes a truly invisible man: "In civilian life, somebody might look at you and say 'You're a Negro,'" remarks Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Friedel C. Greene, 25, a carrier-based radar tracker from Memphis. "Over here they just look...
Getting into the spirit, Columnist Art Buchwald recorded several graffiti from Washington: "Governor Romney-Would you buy a new car from this man?" "Adam Clayton Powell uses Man-Tan." "George Wallace uses hair straightener." "Walter Lippmann-God is not dead. He is alive and appearing twice a week in the Washington Post...
...political future may be nil. Senate adoption of the censure resolution seems assured; it would make Dodd only the sixth Senator in U.S. history to be so chastised by his colleagues. While this punishment may appear lenient-especially when contrasted with the House of Representatives' exclusion of Adam Clayton Powell-the mortification of censure is a sentence to political demise by inches. Dodd will keep all official perquisites, but must inevitably lose most of his influence and prestige, amassed, ironically, through his career as an investigator of others' transgressions. There is some doubt that he will be renominated...
Congressman John Conyers Jr. of Detroit faced the most important political decision of his career early this year. Since he was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1964, Conyers had been considered the heir apparent to Adam Clayton Powell as the nation's leading Negro Democratic politician. Now he was asked to join the nine-man committee set up to examine Powell's sins and recommend whether the Harlem leader should be seated. Conyers knew that Congress was in a nasty mood over Powell's behavior -- indignant over Powell's bravado and scared over increasingly widespread feeling that...