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...counties with G.O.P. workers, the party's victories represented "a history-making breakthrough, particularly because they were at the grass-roots level." Next year, added Yerger, the G.O.P. will try for all of Mississippi's congressional seats, and will even contest Veteran Senator James O. Eastland's. Said Yerger: "We think Eastland is vulnerable...
This sort of sentiment has little in common with that of such other Southern Senators as Mississippi's Jim Eastland, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, Georgia's Herman Talmadge, or even Georgia's Richard Russell, whose sometimes courtly, sometimes acid-tongued combativeness has been badly missed by the Senate's Southerners in their fight against the voting rights bill. Russell has been out for almost four months with emphysema, a lung ailment, but last week he announced that he felt fit enough to run for a seventh term next year...
...moment and ought to pass both houses handily. For once, a Senate civil rights filibuster seems unlikely. The proposal was introduced on the Senate floor last week by 64 co-sponsors-44 Democrats and 20 Republicans. To make certain that it does not get stuck in Mississippi Senator James Eastland's Judiciary Committee, the Senate voted 67 to 13 to instruct Segregationist Eastland to return the bill to the floor no later than April 9. The House hopes to vote by mid-April, and will probably produce no more than 100 votes against...
...District Judge William Harold Cox, 63, is by every accounting a first-rate lawyer, a hard-working jurist-and a tried and true Mississippian (he roomed with Senator Eastland at Ole Miss) who, since his appointment by President Kennedy in 1961, has made a habit of deciding against the Federal Government in civil rights cases. Last week he did it again...
...this plan, backed by Senator Eastland, includes provisions for all but stripping the Fifth of moderate judges. As the new circuit court is set up, it would get Texas' Brown and Louisiana's Wisdom, leaving the Fifth with only Rives and Tuttle as moderates, and Tuttle would soon be succeeded as chief judge by the traditionalist Alabamian Gewin...