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Nick's Place. Washington's shoes-off set got its chance to meet the royal couple at a soiree in the home of Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and Wife Lydia. Since it was billed as an opportunity for the visitors to meet Washington's "young, gay, amusing people," Washington swingers who did not make the guest list consoled themselves with the fact that the 60 invited live wires included such sobersides as Robert McNamara and McGeorge Bundy. Lydia gave the Snowdons an album containing pictures of all the guests as babies. For Tony alone there...
...American courts has been a federal crime since 1875 (Title 18, Section 243), the Justice Department has prosecuted no one for the practice in this century. When an all-white jury recent ly acquitted Tom Coleman for killing a civil rights worker in Hayneville, Ala., Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach could only swallow hard and say: "This is the price you have to pay for the jury system, and I don't think it is too high a price to pay. The situation has changed a great deal already...
Last week, amid criticism by civil rights leaders that the Justice Department has not sent enough federal registrars into the Deep South, U.S. Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach ordered examiners into twelve more Southern counties, making a total of 32 where they will be posted. Six of the new counties are in Mississippi: one encompasses the capital at Jackson; three are in Alabama; two are in South Carolina, which heretofore has escaped federal intervention; and one is in Louisiana. Katzenbach stoutly denied that he acted to placate Negro critics, announced that the counties involved either refused to enroll illiterates...
...Novelty. In fact, the Justice Department has scrupulously heeded the intent of the law, which aims primarily to encourage local compliance. Katzenbach has done his utmost to persuade county officials to obey the law rather than have federal registrars sent in. As a result of such pressure-and patience -two-thirds of all new Negro voters have been voluntarily registered by local officials...
...report and the Katzenbach statement were reproduced by Teddy Kennedy's office and sent to the other 99 Senators with a covering letter offering further elucidation on request. The Kennedy brothers worked frantically meanwhile to line up individual votes. One of their arguments was that the legal establishment is prejudiced against the "shanty Irish." The White House also made some phone calls to rally wavering support for Morrissey, who was, of course, President Johnson's nominee...