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...previous record holder (18 hr. 23 min., in 1908): Robert M. ("Fighting Bob") La Follette. who had the benefit of rests during quorum calls. The preMorse record for talking longest without quorum calls (as Morse did) was held by Louisiana Senator Allen Ellender (12 hr. 20 min., in 1949). †Of such legislative shenanigans, the elder Henry Cabot Lodge once observed: "To vote without debating may be ... rash, but to debate and never vote is imbecility...
...numbers and kinds of birds in various areas in early winter. A similar count will be made next month. Last year Cant, Daniels and James Baird, a graduate student in ornithology at Rutgers University, set out to break the record of 173 species of birds seen in one 24-hr, period in New Jersey. They found 169, ran out of time. They tried again, and this time they ran into some zealous police in Chatham, N.J. The birding team, whistling to attract screech owls, was walking around behind a gas station, carrying flashlights and dressed for tramping through salt marshes...
...Washington last week, pickets with signs-"Commute the death sentences of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg"-kept up a 24-hr.-a-day demonstration near the White House. In New York the Daily Worker filled its pages with shrill protests that "the Rosenbergs must live." Throughout Europe, Communists and fellow travelers pointed to the Rosenbergs as martyrs to "reactionary hysteria...
...longest speech (3 hr. 39 min.) ever made to U.N. members in General Assembly history, but all Russia's Andrei Vishinsky had to say was summed up in a 97-word proposed resolution: the job of bringing an end to the war in Korea should be handed over to a U.N. commission composed of "the parties directly concerned." This meant, obviously, North and South Korea, the U.S. and some, or all, of the U.N. allies; but would it also include Red China and Russia? Mr. Vishinsky...
...promotion from captain to major, and selection as representative to the December "World Peace Congress" in Vienna, decided to drop over to the track in Houstka. northern Bohemia, and celebrate the big news. Major Zatopek's latest exhibition records, according to Prague: 15 miles, run in 1 hr. 16:26.4; 25 kilometers in 1 hr. 19:21.8; 30 kilometers in 1 hr...