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...against the technologically superior Boers a century ago. "This," he said in a dramatic peroration from the dock, "is the struggle of the African people, inspired by their own suffering and experience. It is a struggle for the right to live. I have cherished the ideal of a demo cratic and free society, in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunity. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and achieve. But, if needs be, my Lord, it is an ideal for which I am prepared...
...limiting himself to frequent phone calls to Mansfield or Hubert Humphrey, floor manager for the pro-rights coalition. "When he's most needed," says a Johnson aide, "he'll get into it." Humphrey, a veteran civil rights battler who sparked the 1948 Dixiecrat walkout at the Demo cratic National Convention by inspiring the insertion of a strong rights plank, will be backed up by three strongly liberal deputies: Washington's Warren Magnuson, whose Commerce Committee late last year approved a separate public accommodations bill that is slightly stronger than the version passed by the House; Pennsylvania...
...Franco-backed European Documentation and Information Center, an organization founded in 1952 to bring politically isolated Spain into closer relations with the rest of Europe. His membership in this society and his friendship with Franco convinced Austrian Socialists that his ultimate aim was the re-establishment of an auto cratic monarchy in Austria...
...carried out private polls for 35 U.S. Senators and 17 state Governors, plus scores of other office holders and office seekers. He was John F. Kennedy's pollster in 1960, and Ken nedy based many of his campaign deci sions, both in his drive for the Demo cratic nomination and in his contest with Nixon, on Harris' findings and counsel...
...nicknamed the "No Ways and By No Means Committee." In his efforts to produce bills that would be palatable to everyone, Mills has produced several that were savory to none. He has, moreover, been aloof in his relations with other com mittee members. Cried Illinois' Demo cratic Representative Tom O'Brien on one occasion: "If you don't keep me informed, I'll take this committee away from...