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...Frontier team knew what he was going to propose. He wanted to spring his plan on Congress before critics could marshal any arguments. Then, to the White House one day, he summoned a passel of congressional leaders. Seated at the Cabinet Room's spacious, coffin-shaped table, he somberly reported that management and union negotiators were deadlocked, and that federal intervention was the only way out. Then he revealed his secret. He would, he said, ask Congress to empower the Interstate Commerce Commission to establish railroad work rules for a span of two years, during which time a railroad...
William Sloane Coffin Jr., chaplain of Yale University; Rabbi Morris Lieberman of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation; and Msgr. Austin J. Healy, who marched as an official representative of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore...
...party wars, had convened in Denver-and they too had seemed strong for Goldwater. Said the District of Columbia's Carl L. Shipley: "The depths of this Goldwater feeling is absolutely fantastic. The talk from all sides in Denver is driving nails in Rockefeller's political coffin." Said Maryland's David Scull: "A lot of us have reservations about his tendency to shoot from the hip; it makes us nervous when we think of it in a President. But as of now Goldwater is our best candidate." Said Texas' Peter O'Donnell: "Goldwater will...
...Masonic Hall in the Negro quarter on Lynch Street. There was no air conditioning, no electric fan. The 4,000 Negro people who squeezed into every seat, into every bit of floor space on the stage, in the aisles, along the walls, turned their faces to a flag-draped coffin. Trumpeters arose and began to play a dirge. The people sang: "Be not dismayed, God will take care...
Something Snapped. By Saturday morning, all was peaceful again in Jackson. The crowd that filled the Masonic Hall for Evers' funeral service was well behaved. When it was over, the Negroes lined up to form a cortege behind the coffin, walked 20 blocks to a funeral home. It was one march that Jackson's white city fathers had given the Negroes leave to make...