Word: dirksens
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...JACK PAAR SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Paar's guest list melds a rare and winsome threesome: Senator Everett M. Dirksen, Liberace and Bob Newhart...
...Democratic Senator Teddy Kennedy. For weeks Teddy, a spokesman for 38 other Northern liberals, has blocked the bill by trying to force passage of an amendment outlawing poll taxes in state and local elections (they are already banned in federal elections). The Administration and Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen oppose the Kennedy proposal on grounds that it might be declared unconstitutional and give the whole bill a black eye; two weeks ago Dirksen and like-minded colleagues proposed a compromise under which the Attorney General would try to get poll taxes prohibited by the U.S. Supreme Court. Nothing doing, declared...
There had been no doubt that with the support of Dirksen's Republicans and the Northern Democrats, there were enough votes not only to pass the bill but to get the necessary two-thirds majority to shut off debate. That was still the probability. But Teddy's move put the outcome in at least a little doubt...
...bill's floor leader, Michigan's Democratic Senator Philip Hart. But when the bill was ready for the Senate floor, the anti-poll-tax proposal ran into the opposition of the very men most instrumental in drawing up the original voting bill-Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. They argued that since poll taxes in federal elections had been abolished by constitutional amendment, abolishing them in state elections by statute might be ruled unconstitutional...
Test Case. For three weeks, the bill crawled along in the Senate while the leaders and the Northern liberals waged an embarrassing battle over the issue. The spectacle was hugely enjoyed by Southerners, themselves too weak and divided to mount their own filibuster. Last week Dirksen, Mansfield and Katzenbach provided what they hoped would be an acceptable compromise. The anti-poll-tax amendment would be dropped. But a substitute clause would direct the Attorney General to file "forthwith" in Federal court a test case designed to outlaw any poll tax whose purpose or effect is to deny the right...