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...eight are: Samuel N. Johnson, Robert S. Ervin, James B. Prior, Richard Behn, George G. Whitehouse, Peter Van Allen Hayn, and Lawrence E. Stager, all of the Divinity School, and Samuel J. Miesels, first-year student at the Ed School...
...find ways of guaranteeing any man who wants to work a job-whatever it costs." In Detroit, Vice President Humphrey reasoned: "Whatever it will take to get the job done, we must be willing to pay the price." In a Senate hearing room, North Carolina's Senator Sam Ervin held up a stack of civil rights bills that ran to 1,212 pages and weighed 15 Ibs. 6 oz., and testily asked the Attorney General: "I'd just like to know how many more pages we're going to have." Replied Ramsey Clark: "As many pounds...
...summer of 1965, two Fort Worth gas-station attendants reported that a couple of Negro gunmen had robbed them of $3,000 in broad day light. Not until a month later did the city's undermanned police force pick up a suspect. Then Negro Truck Driver Ervin Byrd, 33, was nabbed on an anonymous tip. Though he loudly pro tested his innocence, the cops were satisfied, and the victims quickly picked Byrd out of a lineup...
...Ervin Jr. of North Carolina, the widespread use of such tests to probe federal job applicants is reminiscent of witchcraft: "Does the flesh of the applicant burn when a hot iron is applied to it? Heaven help us if we are reduced to alchemy as a technique of screening applicants for highly sensitive positions in the federal bureaucracy...
Nobody had to. Dirksen got expected support from most Republicans and Southern Democrats, but he ran into a formidable obstacle in the form of North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin, whose concern for the Constitution rivals Dirksen's passion for prayer. "For God's sake," bellowed Ervin, "and for freedom's sake, let us not vest arbitrary permission power in school boards." When the vote came, Dirksen never really had a prayer. Though he won a 49-to-37 majority, he fell nine short of the two-thirds margin required to amend the Constitution...