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...debate, Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, the bill's floor manager, could not even raise a quorum. Only 39 Senators were present. Of the absentees, 44 were civil rights supporters, three of them -Rhode Island's John Pastore, Missouri's Edward Long and Washington's Warren Magnuson - "captains" of Humphrey's Democratic team. For the first time in nearly two years, the Senate was forced to adjourn because it had been unable to muster a majority needed to do business...
...Johnson aide, "he'll get into it." Humphrey, a veteran civil rights battler who sparked the 1948 Dixiecrat walkout at the Demo cratic National Convention by inspiring the insertion of a strong rights plank, will be backed up by three strongly liberal deputies: Washington's Warren Magnuson, whose Commerce Committee late last year approved a separate public accommodations bill that is slightly stronger than the version passed by the House; Pennsylvania's Joseph Clark, a longtime advocate of fair-employment practices; and Michigan's Philip Hart, ranking Democratic liberal on the Judiciary Committee. To make sure...
...Pyrotechnics. Mansfield told the Senate that he had appointed Majority Whip Hubert Humphrey, a longtime champion of civil rights,* as floor manager of the bill. Humphrey will have one Democratic deputy for each of the bill's three major sections: Washington's Warren Magnuson on public accommodations, Pennsylvania's Joe Clark on FEPC, Michigan's Philip Hart on new judicial procedures...
...every corner of the state, even to Wink, Waxahachie, North Zulch, Buffalo Gap and Muleshoe. What he has found, as he reported for this week's cover story, is that "there are few if any generalities that can be applied to the state as a whole." Writer Ed Magnuson, a Minnesotan transplanted to New York, spent a week in Texas with Correspondent Sullivan, and among his discoveries was that "New Year's Eve in Houston turned out to be no more raucous than it is in St. Cloud." Their story tells a newly curious world about the ayes...
...jurisdiction to include the waters of the continental shelf. The next day the Senate approved a bill granting a 55% Government construction subsidy for the U.S. fleet, which is woefully antiquated in comparison with the fleets of other major fishing nations. The U.S. industry, warned Senator Warren G. Magnuson, "is caught in a cold and losing wet war with Soviet Russia, Japan and other foreign nations...