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After 20 minutes of lackluster debate, the clerk began calling the roll for a vote on the Lausche amendment. The Senate's Democratic leadership was caught flat-footed-not for the first time this year...
When word of what was going on reached Mansfield's office, the meeting abruptly broke up, and Democrats scurried toward the Senate floor. Just after the clerk finished calling the roll, some two dozen Democratic Senators surged into the chamber, began gesturing to get their votes recorded. Amid the confusion, many Senators got only a sketchy notion of what was being voted on, and since the amendment seemed to have carried anyway, several of them decided to play safe and vote against Communism. Final tally: 57 for the amendment. 24 against...
...individual parents who perished left 31 children aged 14 and under; one Atlanta church lost 16 members, another 14. another 12.* Atlantans who had families or friends aboard the plane rushed to the Air France ticket office downtown to check the passenger list. Over and over again, Chief Reservation Clerk Colette Lautzenhiser picked up the phone to say: "Yes. they were on the plane ... I am so sorry." Her knuckles whitened as she gripped the phone, and her eyes closed. "I am so sorry, Madam. They were on the list." "Don't Cry." Insistently, radio bulletins tolled the death...
...since the ouster, more ministers than ever are convinced that he was the wrong man to handle so sensitive a call as the Broadway church; and they believe that under Presbyterian law they were fully justified in removing him. "Our presbytery," says Dr. Henry Barraclough, a retired Associate Stated Clerk and an expert on Presbyterian law, "is the most powerful bishop on earth...
...father, Sir John Reeves Ellerman, rose from stock clerk to owner of a vast shipping fortune. By shrewd investment, her brother John-a skittery recluse whose sole passion is the study of rodent anatomy-has become Britain's richest...