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...whooped and wambled through the debate, arms waving and objections flying, as if bent on infuriating the rest of the Senate. In a rambling six-hour diatribe that approached filibuster proportions and reduced attendance on the floor from more than 70 to 13, Long invoked his father, Uncle Earl, Daniel Webster, Christ and John F. Kennedy, along with a number of others. He capped the week by exclaiming: "I understand the case for Tom Dodd better than Tom Dodd understands the case for Tom Dodd...
With that, Negro marchers took to the streets in nearby Montgomery, a city whose mayor, Earl James, prefers to handle civil rights demonstrators without violence. Although Alabama's Governor Lurleen Wallace sent in National Guardsmen, Mayor James's police gave the Negroes an escort and thus precluded a direct confrontation. Released on $500 bail, Carmichael tried to whip up the mob with black-power speeches, but its members-mostly youngsters-only cheered a bit and sang a few songs, then broke up and went home...
From the court's four dissenters-Chief Justice Earl Warren, Associate Justices William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas and William J. Brennan-came a blistering objection written by Brennan: "We cannot permit fears of 'riots' and 'civil disobedience' generated by slogans like black power to divert our attention from what is here at stake-arming the state courts with the power to punish as a 'contempt' what they otherwise could not punish at all." Although the state is unlikely to seek extradition, King plans to go to jail in Alabama next month...
...House, Queen Elizabeth pulled a golden tassel drawing back the curtains over a small plaque on the garden wall: "Queen Mary, 1867-1953." Then she stood on the sidewalk for a few moments chatting with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Earl of Harewood...
...Kennedese; Jill Clayburgh, Roger Robinson and Louis Galterie are verveful witches. Lady McB. (Nancie Phillips) drives the Southern hostess persona to the breaking point, splitting each vowel into triads. Everyone, in short, is deft and galling; only Jake Dengel (The Egg of Head) and Gwyllum Evans (The Earl of Warren) manage to offer anything approaching straight comedy, but then the context is probably too weak to support much more...