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...Powell does not present himself," intoned his attorney last week, "until it is determined that Congress is ready to swear him in." The House of Representatives was never less ready to seat Adam Clayton Powell, despite his re-election in Harlem April 11 by a 7 to 1 margin. Arizona Democrat Morris Udall, one of those urging Powell's reinstatement, conceded: "There are fewer votes for him now than there were on March 1," when his peers voted overwhelmingly to bar him during the life of the 90th Congress...
Though Adam Clayton Powell's campaign manager waited 90 minutes after the polls closed to claim victory, he need hardly have been so circumspect. Powell's re-election last week to the House seat from which he had been excluded in March was a foregone conclusion; the only question was how large his vote would be. As it happened, he beat two non-campaigning nonentities by a lopsided margin of nearly 7 to 1. But the results hardly seemed to bear out tales of uncontrollable rage among Negroes at Powell's treatment in Washington. Only...
These days the Government seldom loses an antitrust case in the Supreme Court. And last week the trustbusters won big. In a unanimous decision, the court agreed with the Federal Trade Commission's contention that the ten year-old Procter & Gamble-Clorox Chemical merger violated the Clayton Antitrust Act and should be dissolved...
High Time. Justice Harlan agreed with the order, but also shared the business community's disappointment. It was high time, said Harlan in a concurring opinion, for the court to "at least embark upon the formulation of standards for the application of Section 7 of the Clayton Act to mergers which are neither horizontal nor vertical and which previously have not been considered in depth by this court...
...Adam Clayton Powell voted to exclude from the House of Representatives five members-elect from Mis sissippi-even though the delegation met all constitutional requirements for admission. All were over 25, U.S. citizens and residents of the state they sought to represent.*Now that the shoo is on the other foot, Powell contends that Congress has no constitutional right to deny him his own seat in Congress. Last week his suit based on this argument was thrown out of Federal District Court in Washington...