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Silent Filibuster. As a sometime Senate talk champion, Oregon's Morse fittingly started the filibuster off fortnight ago, getting the floor and holding it for two rambling days. Another day was spent in constant calls for quorum, in which only six minutes were spent on debate. In frantic attempts to muster a quorum on a summer Saturday, Senate Democratic leaders summoned Senators to Washington from as far away as Mackinac Island in Lake Huron, even dispatched a Navy PT boat to fetch three Democrats from the nuclear merchant ship Savannah, cruising off Norfolk, Va. At one point, Minnesota...
Walking Shoes. Even martyrdom is something that King cannot always depend on. Fortnight ago, he chose to accept a 45-day jail sentence-rather than pay a $178 fine-for his role in an earlier Albany protest march. But hardly was he clapped behind bars when a man described by police as a "well-dressed Negro" paid the fine anyway; his benefactor was not identified, but the talk around Albany was that the whites themselves had paid the fine to keep King from becoming a more powerful rallying point. Some of Albany's Negroes somehow expected that King...
Even Palmer got irritated. When a photographer thoughtlessly asked him to move aside so he could get a shot of U.S. Open Champ Jack Nicklaus, the usually affable Arnie flushed angrily, growled, "Hell, no." Exhausted from his record-smashing triumph fortnight ago in the British Open, his feathery putting touch turned leaden. Palmer wound up tied for 17th with an 8-over-par 288. Just about everybody had at least one bad round-all but Gary Player. Sacrificing distance for accuracy, Player switched from a driver to a No. 3 wood for tee shots, began a methodical assault...
Needed: More Exports. Despite such general confidence, most foreigners can see plenty of room for improvement in the state of U.S. business. Few go so far as Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal, who fortnight ago described the U.S. economy as "stagnant." But a majority is concerned over the fact that the rate of U.S. economic growth was only 2% last year v. an average 6% for the Common Market nations. To a man, foreign businessmen think that the U.S. should be expanding much faster economically-and many say that tax cuts would be a good way to spur expansion. Some argue...
Cans have taken 37% of the $430 million-a-year beer container market away from bottles, and now they are looming bigger in the soft-drink container business. Fortnight ago, Continental Can Co. reported that sales of its soft-drink cans were running 40% ahead of last year. Canned soft drinks were almost unknown nine years ago; they are expected to account for about 5% (or 1.8 billion cans) of the market this year. By 1970, predicts Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.'s commercial research department, cans will have 15.2% of the business...