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...Government suit, cried Mississippi's Senators Eastland and Stennis in a joint statement, is "a raw, rank and political gesture." Mississippi's legal defense, such as it is, is likely to be based on the contention that Negroes on the beach would jeopardize public safety, thereby thwarting "public...
...three-minute adjournment, which turned the legislative calendar over one day, then got his second reading. Then, declining to strain precedent by bringing the bill directly to the floor but loath to see it bottled up in the Judiciary Committee chaired by Mississippi's James Eastland, Johnson won a vote (86-5) requiring that Eastland report the bill back within five days...
...York Herald Tribune's Reporter Earl Mazo was a Hoffa political purge list, containing the names of 87 Senators and Representatives running for 1960 reelection. Sent several months ago to Teamster leaders around the country, it cited four Democratic Senators (McClellan, Mississippi's James Eastland, West Virginia's Jennings Randolph and Tennessee's Estes Kefauver) and five Republicans (South Dakota's Karl Mundt, Ida ho's Henry Dworshak. Colorado's Gordon Allott. Nebraska's Carl Curtis and Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel). Although Hoffa professes to be an all-out civil rights integrationist...
...both, in an eleven-hour talkathon). Once in a while the Southerners gave way for subject matter of a more businesslike tone, e.g., a speech on U.S. defense by Massachusetts' Presidential Candidate Jack Kennedy. Here and there, a speaker attacked the "Warren" Supreme Court: Mississippi's James Eastland scornfully labeled the Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of the 1957 Civil Rights Act as "crap" (though a thoughtful clerk recorded it as "claptrap"). Arkansas' William Fulbright, time-tested segregationist, took the occasion to lambaste President Eisenhower for turning the U.S. into "a 20th century Babylon, headless...
...Jack-of-All-Arts Noel Coward, 59, abed with phlebitis (inflammation of veins) in Les Avants, Switzerland; General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 80, showing "gradual improvement" in a Manhattan hospital after being downed by a prostate gland infection (see MEDICINE); Mississippi's segregating Democratic Senator James O. Eastland, 55, laid up in Maryland's Bethesda Naval Hospital with a stubborn case of influenza; West Germany's Minister of the Economy Ludwig Erhard, who celebrated his 63rd birthday getting congratulated in bed while recovering from pneumonia contracted on his recent trip to Cairo...