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...Committee of the Whole to debate civil rights, Smith issued a two-part order of the day. His 100 Southern Congressmen were to concentrate fire behind an amendment calling for jury trials in contempt cases-a device of North Carolina's Senator Sam Ervin Jr. that would effectively gut the bill while piously pretending to preserve venerable jury-trial rights (TIME, May 6). They were to fight the battle with calmness and consideration, said Smith...
...carrying on with a French business man (Jean Pierre Aumont) in Hong Kong. When her husband finds out, he (of course) packs her off posthaste to the nearest outbreak of cholera. Her character immediately begins to improve. The local white trash (George Sanders) philosophically assures her that Schnapps ist gut für die Cholera. But at the sight of a corpse the heroine clutches her throat theatrically and gasps: "It makes everything else seem horribly trivial...
...introduction to the report notes: "It is hardly necessary to document the evidence for the lack of real interest in the intellectual life of the University on the part of all too many students; the swarm that descends on "gut" courses, the hundreds whose memorization of the student outline is the only discipline their minds get in a course, and the multitude who simply take notes and disgorge the lectures, duly organized, on hour tests and examinations testify to the apathy of the average Yale student towards his studies. The theme is repeated by faculty and students alike; many have...
...point that the U.S. cannot turn back to 1890. Best translation: Ike intends to stick by his Modern Republican guns, but he does not intend to turn them on the other wing of his party ("Our job," explained a top ranker in the National Committee, "is to bust a gut to elect every Republican who gets nominated...
...Francisco Lawyer George T. Davis was in a gut-wracking hurry. He glanced at his wristwatch: 8:50 a.m. In 70 minutes Burton W. Abbott, 29, found guilty of murdering a teen-aged girl, would die in San Quentin's gas chamber. Davis waited tensely for the U.S. Court of Appeals to grant a stay of execution based on his claim that Abbott had not received due process of law. Then the answer came: appeal denied...