Word: delayed
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Opposition is working along two lines. The first is to hold the bill in committee until a filibuster would kill it on the Senate floor. Every day's delay helps, since a crowded schedule at the end of the session will not leave time for Southern oratory to exhaust itself. A second and more insidious tactic, the specialty of Senator Ervin of North Carolina, is to raise doubts as to the constitutionality of the measure in the minds of those non-Southern senators who still fear addition to federal power at the expense of states' rights...
...system of marriage, based on the superiority of men over women, shall be abolished." Marriages in the future were to be arranged only "by the parties concerned ... of their own free will," said the new law. It also promised economic freedom and equality for all women, divorces "issued without delay" at the request of either party (except the husbands of pregnant women), an end to discrimination against bastardy, and the protection of illegitimate children. Just to make everything absolutely clear, the law stated specifically in Article XIII: "It is strictly forbidden to drown newborn babies...
Lyss added that one Boston hospital had to delay an operation for two days, until Harvard students could supply six pints of O-negative type blood yesterday...
...mere personal attack. He had been privately nettled at the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee for opening itself up to blame in the suicide of Canadian Ambassador to Egypt Herbert Norman (see HEMISPHERE); Ike tried to calm the Canadian uproar with words of sympathy. Nettling him also was continued congressional delay in an area where presidential prestige was at stake. After last autumn's Hungarian uprising, the President made outright and definite commitments to secure regular refugee status for about 25,000 Hungarians admitted to the U.S. as parolees. Warned Ike last week: "We have about exhausted the possibilities...
WASHINGTON, April 9--Republican congressional leaders said today they have no "deal" with Southern Democrats to delay action on civil rights legislation for another year. Sen. Eastland (D-Miss.) agreed there is no such arrangement...