Word: filibusterer
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Yet he paid a price for his analytical purity. Frequently, as Steel claims, "Lippmann's concern with the process of government made him lose sight of the human drama involved." Indeed, heated emotions exasperated him. His columns on the imminent executions of Sacco and Vanzetti seem peculiarly bloodless, especially...
Meanwhile, Frank Affilito, a BAARD member, was sentenced to six months probation Wednesday morning for refusing to leave federal property. He and four others staged a five-hour sit-in in April in the Boston offices of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) in an attempt to persuade the...
Draft registration bill survives a Senate filibuster
Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield vowed to use every stalling technique the Senate's quaint rules would permit. At 3:30 a.m. Alaska Republican Ted Stevens read monotonously from a lengthy Senate committee report. At 4 a.m. Connecticut Republican Lowell Weicker worked himself into a spirited and largely irrelevant plea...
Hatfield's determined drive to block draft registration had been doomed from the start. Although he was supported by an unusual mixture of conservatives and liberals from both parties, the Senate clearly was ready to approve the plan proposed by President Carter last January, just after Soviet troops invaded...