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...recommendations, was promptly attacked as a belated Republican attempt to grab political credit on a hot election issue-especially since Rogers is Vice President Nixon's close friend and adviser. While Dixiecrats maneuvered to send Rogers' proposal to the limbo of Mississippi's Senator James 0. Eastland's Judiciary Committee, liberals lamented the last-minute torpedoing of the registrar plan, to which they are heavily committed. But Rogers seemed to have the last and most effective word: the referee plan, he said, had been presented as soon as it had been carefully worked...
...that an evening of parlor singing can be bought at a record store, eliminating the need for any actual singing in the parlor, why not a night's recorded conversation, eliminating the need to talk? Possible titles: Sneer Along with Mort Sahl, Rant and Rave with Senator Eastland, Analyze with Famous Freudian and Moan and Groan with Joseph Alsop...
...Fidel, Himself." The U.S. link to the Cuba furor was the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, chaired by Mississippi's Senator James Eastland. Eastland's witness was Major Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz, former head of Castro's air force, who says he was fired for fighting Communist influence in the armed forces (TIME, July 13). Cuba's No. 1 Communist, Díaz Lanz charged, "is Fidel himself." He added that on a trip to Venezuela, he saw Castro go into a hotel bathroom for a private, two-hour talk with Venezuelan Communist Boss Gustavo Machado. Castro...
...Eastland began baiting Stewart on the legal reasoning in 1954's keystone Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision. Replied Potter Stewart evenly: "I didn't come here today to criticize the institution of the Supreme Court or to do any harm to it ... I never so far as I know decided a case on any basis other than applying the law as I understand it to the facts ... In many cases the law is not easy to find. Certainly, in many cases before the Supreme Court of the U.S. If they were easy cases, they would...
...midflight Eastland recessed the hearing so everybody could go out to watch the Washington Senators open the season against the Baltimore Orioles (Senators 9, Orioles 2), which meant that Justice Stewart would be back again this week...