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Oregon Democrat Edith Green tried to amend the bill to exempt people whose religion does not permit joining unions; her amendment was ruled "not germane." So strict were the limitations on debate that in order to complete her arguments, she three times had to borrow speaking time from the Republicans. To her fellow Democrats, Mrs. Green said acidly: "I'm greatly indebted to the people on the left side of the aisle who are so liberal they allow free expression here." Also beaten back were Republican attempts to bar union shops among unions that practice racial discrimination...
...there is air action in Viet Nam. In the darkness, he turns and lifts the phone to call the Situation Room deep in the basement of the White House and then, hopefully, goes back to sleep. Once an admirer wrote a passage about the great lady of Greek letters Edith Hamilton, and it applies so accurately to Lyndon Johnson it is worth repeating now: "She feels like a personal experience the giant agony of the world; there are not many in this aristocracy of humanity...
...Married. Edith Dulles, 23, granddaughter of the late Secretary of State, a graduate student of political science at the University of Texas; and Lewis Wilson Jr., 27, University of Texas law student; in Washington...
TAKEN CARE OF, by Edith Sitwell. Memoirs completed shortly before Dame Edith's death last year that shed harsh new light on a gifted metaphysical poet and a self-dramatist who acted out endless roles for herself with astounding audacity and imagination...
...Dame Edith in her last best years struck the attitude of a withered grand Cassandra. Her memoirs involuntarily reveal that in this, as in all her cold, impressive poses, it was seldom a grown woman who spoke. It was more often poor little E, getting even with the world for making her poor little...