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...President, I say thank you. Thank you, Mr. President.") Having done his duty, and drawn boos as well as heavy applause, Humphrey then moved to cut the umbilical. It was now "the end of an era???the beginning of a new day," he said. To ensure that nobody missed the point, he used the "new day" phrase half a dozen more times, and it would be no surprise if that became the slogan of his campaign. In a Humphrey Administration?if there is one?he told reporters, "I may turn to 'new dawn.' The dawn comes slowly, but it illuminates...
Still, the great controversies of the Warren era??? civil rights, reapportionment and criminal justice? have largely been decided and the decisions are largely irreversible. "The work of the Warren era is finished," Fortas said last week. "It's done? magnificently. It was the greatest era of court history since John Marshall, and perhaps one can drop that qualification...
...Choice. What he has been is remarkable in political history. Both of his Negro predecessors in the Senate went to Washington as symbols of Yankee vindictiveness against the South during the Reconstruction era???and both were puppet politicians. The first, an itinerant preacher named Hiram Rhodes Revels, was picked in 1870 by the Mississippi legislature, then dominated by carpetbaggers and Negroes, to fill the Senate seat once occupied by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The other was Blanche Kelso Bruce, an imposing mulatto, who was sent to the Senate in 1875, also from Mississippi...
...Townsend hopes will give Chrysler a commanding lead in development of what may prove the auto engine of the future. But the impact of Townsend's turnaround is already apparent among those shrewdest of critics, the dealers. Says Sacramento Dealer Dalton Feldstein: "It's a new spirit, a new era???and it's about time...
BEVERIDGE AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA???Claude G. Bowers?H ought on Mifflin ($5). A dull biography of a second-rate great man. Literary Guild choice for September...