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...passed civil rights bill, Southern Senators decided that a filibuster would be both futile and dangerous: it might result in a harsher bill, it might bring about a change in the Senate's cloture rule, and it would certainly build up ill will that could only harm the Southern cause in future years. Among the first to agree with the no-filibuster decision was South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, the 1948 Dixiecrat candidate for President...
Independent women, the sociologists inferred, are rather frigid politically. They are not the critics, boosters or intellectuals, or the overemotional. "With only limited political loyalty, they perhaps respond to the unique candidate they feel will do them the least harm...
...skull and shatters a bust in the city hall, a truck on which he is perched roars runaway downhill to crash through a cottage. The villagers take muttering notice that no matter how badly such disasters may damage the boy's surroundings, they never cause Gaspard any lasting harm...
...Columbia), but Sal Mineo's lustrous brown eyes get mighty moist in this movie while he fends off all manner of ruffians, twerps and smart alecks. As a 17-year-old paragon of adolescence in a Georgia orphanage, "Big Fella" Mineo stoutly defends the "little fellas" from harm, sturdily resists the temptations and blandishments of a bevy of Bad Examples. In hammering out his selfless philosophy of life, Sal learns through bitter experience to reject the cynical green applesauce of an opportunistic main-chancer (Thomas Carlin), and to sneer at the diesel-crass plutocracy of a trucking tycoon (Gene...
...London's St. James Ladies' Swimming Club, Proud Papa Fred Francis gave her a pound note ($2.80). Promptly, Club Secretary Florence Fuller ruled the gift made Carol a pro, last week barred her from the pool, primly wrote home that gifts of clothes and candy might further harm Carol's standing. Cried the father: "It's farcical-I've been giving Carol food and clothes for twelve years!" But after a chat with Regional Swimming Official Harry Gibbons, Rigid-Ruler Florence relented, ruled that Carol was still an amateur after...