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...more than half the 234 Democrats still prepared to vote down the jury-trial amendment. But as debate continued toward this week's crucial voting, a new wedge was driven in the pro-civil-rights ranks. The driver: no less an advocate than Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell. "Why send Pennsylvania and Ohio Democrats to Congress," he wrote fellow House members, "if they must take their orders from the middlemen who serve the White Citizens' Councils...
...came to a boil over two decisions (see below), both written by new Justice William J. Brennan and handed down last week. In holding that the Du Pont Co.'s ownership of 23% of the stock of General Motors constitutes an illegal monopoly, the Supreme Court stretched the Clayton Antitrust Act so far that even Government trustbusters gasped. In ordering that specific FBI reports be turned directly over to the defense in a new trial for Unionist Clinton Jencks, who had been convicted of falsely swearing that he was not a Communist, the Supreme Court happily surprised the defense...
...much does the cotton support program cost taxpayers? Last week Lamar Fleming Jr., board chairman of Anderson, Clayton & Co., world's largest private cotton dealers, dug into Government figures, came up with the staggering total of $1,156,000,000 as the cost this year. In a speech to the American Cotton Congress in Dallas, Fleming, a crusader for sound farm policies (TIME, April 8), pointed out that this is more than $1,000 for each of the 850,000 farms on which cotton is grown...
...decision, the court ruled that Du Pont's 23 per cent stock interest in GM violates the Clayton Antitrust...
...epochal desegregation decision, some 14,000 Negroes and whites, members of a Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, converged on Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial temple. The three-hour program offered some prayers, hymns, solemn speeches and outright rabble-rousing. New York's shrill Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell bitterly cried: "We meet here today in front of the Lincoln Memorial because we are getting more from a dead Republican than we are from live Democrats and live Republicans!" In direct contrast, staking his hopes on the future rather than anchoring his peeves on the past, was Montgomery...