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...Kazen-Komarek was born in Czechoslovakia in 1924 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1960. He left in 1948, the year of the Communist takeover, and lived in France before coming to the united States ten years...
Filibuster leader was San Antonio's Henry Gonzalez, 41, the first Texan of Mexican parentage to be elected to the state senate since 1892. Alternating with Laredo's Abraham Kazen Jr., 38, Freshman Senator Gonzalez (who perfected his speech as a child by practicing with pebbles in his mouth, "like Demosthenes") ranged the course of world history and literature to flesh out his marathon talk. Quoting hugely from Herodotus, the Prophet Jeremiah, John Donne and many another classic, he dazzled his colleagues -and almost wore them down-with his panegyric on freedom and on the crucial need...
Gonzalez and Kazen spoke for a record-breaking (for Texas) 36 hours and two minutes-and did not give up the fight until they won agreement from the segregationists to vote only on the first bill, leaving the rest for this week. Said Senator Gonzalez, after his colleagues passed the measure: "I intend to fight every one [of the other bills] to the last ditch...