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Word from Harvard. As the week's infighting commenced, Minority Leader William Fife Knowland seemed to have every right to mask his customary gravity with a confident smile. Five days earlier he had been beaten when the Senate struck out the bill's sweeping Part III and limited the bill only to enforcing the right of all qualified citizens to vote (TIME, Aug. 5). But he had bounced back to re-form his coalition of Republicans and Democratic liberals for a surer battle. He had grown so certain that he could fend off attempts to weaken the enforcement...
What Bill Knowland did not realize was the essential infirmity of his "sure" votes. A handful of moderates in both parties-enough to swing the scales-still had serious doubts over the complex legal problem of jury trials in contempt cases. Massachusetts' Democrat Jack Kennedy had asked four Harvard law professors whether the concept of jury trials in criminal contempt cases was sound or not, received an unhelpful 2-2 reply...
Into the continuing Senate debate on civil rights came a powerful, persuasive, familiar third force. For a fortnight the session's bitterest battle had raged between polar opposites-Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell and his determined Southerners, Senate Republican Leader William Fife Knowland and his coalition of Republicans and Democratic liberals. Last week, with the pressures carefully remeasured, the crosscurrents analyzed, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson calculated that it was time to come out of the wings and exercise his superb cloakroom skill in the name of moderation. Johnson's goal: enactment of a compromise civil rights bill...
...troops to enforce the law (a right he has, anyway). So forcefully had Russell's forces broadened this indelicate slip into a virtual rape of the South that everybody agreed it would be a good thing to vote it out of the bill-to "clarify the atmosphere," as Knowland put it. The atmosphere was clarified by a vote of 90 to 0. But so, to Lyndon Johnson, was the fact that Knowland was on the defensive, and ripe to be pushed even more in the direction of the Southern position...
...True Aim. Knowland's troubles, of course, stemmed from the fact that in spite of such bombast as Harry Byrd's, Dick Russell's strategy had been amazingly effective. So persuasive were the Southern arguments that most of the Senate and the President too had completely lost sight of the true aim of the civil rights bill of 1957. Wrote TIME'S Congressional Correspondent James McConaughy at week...