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...than 15 minutes, with the exception of Everett Dirksen, whose coefficient of three hours and 25 minutes Dr. McLandress attributes to his "almost unique inability to divert his thoughts from the public interest." Lowest ratings in the Senate are held by Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse and New York Republican Jacob Javits, who both score four minutes...
Less impressive was the William Byrd Suite arranged by Gordon Jacob. Byrd's music was written for small groups; his light melodies and whim-ical tempos are either lost or made heavy in the transcription for a band of more than 100 players. Walker did his best to preserve the spirit of Byrd and now and then he succeeded. But in the exposed woodwind passages, which should have been airy, 26 clarinets were far too many...
Accepting the advice, the group switched its strategy and pressed a strong Title III" in their interviews--either the Judiciary Sub-committee's Title III or a slightly weaker version proposed by Sen. Jacob Javits (R.N.Y.). A strong Title III would give the U.S. Attorney-General power to intervene in the Perdew case, enjoining Georgia's state courts not to enforce a State insurrection law under which Perdew and two other civil rights workers are facing a possible death sentence...
...final hours, the debate produced sparks. The day before the ratification vote, dissenting Senators sought to tie a spate of qualifications to the pact-any one of which could have put the whammy on the whole works. "If reservations are attached to the treaty," New York Republican Jacob Javits had warned, "it will mar for the world and all the nations which are signing the treaty the statesmanship which dedicated it in the first place...
Bevan by temperament was an artist rather than a politician, and he sought his friends not among the worthy pedants of social reform in the "slouching, sluggish" Labor Party leadership but among artists like Jacob Epstein, writers like H. G. Wells, or even with an aristocrat turned columnist like Lord Castlerosse. Bevan behaved as if his own talent and exuberance gave him a spectator's seat rather than an underdog's role in the old British game of class soccer. After a fine meal with good wine he would quip: "You can always live like a millionaire...