Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Humphrey, Javits & Co. would like nothing better than a cloture rule allowing the Senate to cut off debate by a simple majority vote. Against that, Georgia's Richard Russell, strategic leader of the filibuster forces, and Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, even while admitting last week that a change in Rule XXII is probably inevitable, aim at holding it to a near-meaningless minimum. From the battle that will begin next Jan. 7 between those two positions may come a rule allowing Senators to talk lengthily-but not forever...
...Selbourne Mvusi, a Zulu painter and sculptor, will arrive Saturday for three days, sponsored by Gordon W. Allport '19, Professor of Psychology. A leader in the movement to develop native African art, Mr. Mvusi is Director of Art Education for Bantu children attending the Loram Native School in Durban, Natal...
...Virginia last week readers of the state's most influential newspapers found the biggest news in weeks on the editorial pages. Long advocates of "massive resistance" to school integration, Richmond's Times-Dispatch and News Leader had decided that the commonwealth's maze of pro-segregation laws was foredoomed to failure. Editor Virginius Dabney's Times-Dispatch called for an assembly commission to think up new defensive tactics, and Editor James Jackson Kilpatrick's News Leader even talked about the possibility of limited, local-option integration. When the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch
...would continue to fight on the old grounds, there was little doubt that the news on the editorial pages heralded a strategic retreat in Richmond toward token compliance with the U.S. Supreme Court's integration decrees. The import was not lost on the segregationists who sent News Leader Editor Kilpatrick, the most articulate spokesman for the diehard segregationists, a bitter, one-sentence telegram: "Et tn, Brute...
...Lawrence. Mendenhall's favorite sport is rowing-he rowed at Oxford, watches Yale crew practice in all weather-but he has perfected a crushing game of croquet at Berkeley. Students there are agitated about his departure. Picket sign carried last week by one Yalie: "Take us with you, leader...