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...demonstration, more than 4,000 antibusing marchers toted American flags and a coffin inscribed DEATH OF FREEDOM as they massed outside the state capitol to hear City Councilman Howard Carwile denounce progressive Governor Linwood Holton as "gutless, spineless, no good," a man who made him "think of euthanasia." The Rev. John Spong, the esteemed rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church and a cousin of Democratic U.S. Senator William Spong Jr., took to the pulpit last week to label Carwile's remarks as "the cheap shot of an insensitive politician." The councilman was unrepentant. Dismissing Spong...
While the White House and its allies were concentrating on the recommittal move, Bayh and Brooke were taking counts on the straight up-or-down vote on the nomination, scheduled for Wednesday if recommittal failed. They found that some Senators had indeed bought the concept that recommittal was a gutless way out, and preferred voting directly on confirmation. Among them were Oregon's Republican Robert Packwood, Hawaii's Republican Hiram Fong, Connecticut's Democrat Thomas Dodd. If all the other 44 anti-Carswell votes held firm and those three could be persuaded to vote no, that would close...
John Seelye has pulled off one of the best literary stunts in a long while. He has substantially altered The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a puckish attempt to satisfy those critics who have found Mark Twain's masterpiece either artless, craftless, sexless, a gutless accommodation with commercialism or an overstuffed moral copout...
...from criminal practice, Foreman sat, stripped to his undershirt, on the edge of his Memphis hotel-room bed. There, he held court for fascinated newsmen and expounded his theories about the declining art of criminal-law practice. Most of today's young lawyers, he said, are much too gutless to take on criminal cases. "They are afraid to leave the library for fear they'll make a public ass of themselves in court." Perhaps it is because of this shortage of guts that Percy Foreman has recently had some second thoughts about retiring...