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...Southern attempts to enfeeble it with amendments (TIME, June 24), finally last week passed it by a vote of 286 to 126. By the usual procedure, under Senate Rule 25, the House's bill seemed headed for the Eastland committee. But California's Minority Leader William F. Knowland was ready with a fast parliamentary ploy: he invoked 80-year-old Rule 14, under which a member can request that a House-passed measure "be placed on the calendar," thereby keeping it out of committee...
...Knowland's move touched off five hours of oratorical fireworks, mostly Southern protests, before a packed and tense chamber. Finally the Senate tossed the parliamentary puzzle-Rule 14 or Rule 25?-to Vice President Richard Nixon. Ruled Nixon, following a line laid out by New Jersey's scholarly Republican Clifford Case: since the precedents were unclear, it was up to the Senate to decide by vote whether to refer the bill to committee or place it directly on the calendar...
After three more hours of speechmaking, the talk-tired Senate, backing up Bill Knowland, voted to bypass the Eastland roadblock under Rule 14. The tally: 45 to 39, with eleven Northern Democrats (not including Oregon's civil righteous Wayne Morse) supporting Knowland, and five mossy Republicans (Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Nevada's George Malone, South Dakota's Karl Mundt, North Dakota's Milton Young, Delaware's John Williams) breaking ranks to join the Southerners. Still ahead after the Fourth of July recess: an all-out Southern attempt to drown it in a flood...
Married. Helen Estelle Knowland, 19, brunette daughter of Senate Minority Leader William F. Knowland; and Robert Van Sickle McKeen, 23, a 1955 University of California basketball star, now with the Kaiser Steel Corp.; in Oakland. Calif...
...billion appropriation sought by the Administration. Moreover, it even approved the President's request for an economic-development fund of indefinite duration, thus setting a new pattern for economic development funds (TIME, June 3). When the measure reached the Senate, both Minority Leader William Fife Knowland and Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson quickly endorsed it. Said Texan Johnson: "This is the kind of philosophy that will get other nations off their backs-and off our taxpayers' backs...