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Scarcely had the chaplain said amen to the opening prayer when Missouri Republican Durward Hall demanded the entire journal of the preceding session be read. The clerk had barely begun to drone when Minority Whip Leslie Arends of Illinois leaped up and demanded a quorum count, which includes a full roll call of the House. McCormack had to comply. The count ate up half an hour. It was hardly finished when Iowa Republican H. R. Gross asked for another. And so it went all afternoon and into the night. Majority Leader Carl Albert accused the opposition of filibustering. Tempers frazzled...
...greatest bluffs in U.S. traffic law is the New York City parking ordinance. Stern-looking green tickets, carrying a $15 fine, are issued by the hip-pocketful every day. At the moment, there are more than 900,000 outstanding tickets that have not been paid. The reason: before the clerk of court will issue a warrant for the car owner's arrest, he must have positive evidence that the owner himself parked...
...this, he formed his own group, and in the early 1950s became the dominant figure in the newly emerging "cool school." But he was spending $70 a day for drugs. In 1954, he walked into a Seattle drugstore, stuck his finger in his pocket and demanded narcotics. When the clerk asked to see his gun, he fled. Incongruously, a few minutes later he telephoned the pharmacy to apologize. Police traced the call to his hotel room and arrested him. He collapsed and was removed to a hospital. From his hospital bed, he vowed "to break the habit and come back...
...directions to the courthouse was gruffly told, "We don't let Nigras vote here." The locked door to the registrar's office in Alabama's Lee County bore the sign "Back Sept.1," and the office in Mississippi's Rankin County was closed because the circuit clerk has been "ill." In some counties, local registrars processed whites ahead of Negroes, then slowed to a snail's pace. In others, they let Negroes through the door only to propel them right back out after advising them to come back in 30 days to see if they...
...after two hours' deliberation, four white spectators distinctly heard him say, "Guilty." But the courtroom was noisy, and Judge Harold Smith apparently did not hear. He requested a written verdict. Someone had handed Williams a slip of paper, he had signed it, and it was brought to the clerk. It said: "Innocent...