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...Orlovitz's first novel may well boast the longest bath scene in literary history. As early as page 8, Lee Emanuel starts undressing. But he proves far less interested in drawing water than in pouring streams of consciousness from the taps of James Joyce. It is not until page 122 that he actually enters the tub. By page 517, he has come to a decision: from now on, the shower for him. By then, it's too late. Orlovitz's waterlogged novel has gone down the drain-a victim of its own sluice-of-life...
...same time, an antiriot act that would impose up to five years' imprisonment and a $10,000 fine on anyone who crosses state lines with the object of stirring up trouble zipped through the House by a 347-to-70 vote. "This bill," protested New York's Emanuel Celler, "will not allay but will rather arouse more deeply the Negro's anger and frustration...
Long is not the only one shocked by the growing arsenal of electronic devices designed to eavesdrop on their most personal affairs. The advent of the transistor marked the end of the Fourth Amendment's protection against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Electronic bugging has become so widespread that Congressman Emanuel Celler (D.-N.Y.) says nobody in Washington can be certain his telephones are private...
SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY '48 formally announced the huge Bedford-Stuyvesant program at a mass meeting in P.S. 305. It was a gala occasion, featuring Senator Jacob Javits, Rep. Emanuel Celler, Mayor John Lindsay, Boston's Redevelopment Administrator Edward J.Logue, and a host of other speakers who rambled on long after much of the audience had left...
...exclusion. There was no doubt that Powell would win at the polls, but his victory could well be meaningless, since the House has already voted, 307 to 116, to bar him from the 90th Congress. There remains, however, the possibility that the House will relent. Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the select committee that recommended that Powell be seated but penalized, predicts that the House will now admit the prodigal...