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...which only six minutes were spent on debate. In frantic attempts to muster a quorum on a summer Saturday, Senate Democratic leaders summoned Senators to Washington from as far away as Mackinac Island in Lake Huron, even dispatched a Navy PT boat to fetch three Democrats from the nuclear merchant ship Savannah, cruising off Norfolk, Va. At one point, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, acting as majority leader in the absence of Montana's Mike Mansfield, considered ordering the sergeant at arms to place absent Senators under arrest and bring them to the chamber. The quorum was achieved only...
From Code to Cult. Though the merchant princes were beginning to make their appearance, church and court were still the major patrons. The great lords were losing their feudal powers to the state, and as if feeling the threat, they retreated into a world almost of make-believe. They made a cult of the ancient code of chivalry in which the most ignoble action could be described as a deed of honor. Etiquette was rigorous, and manners so sacred that a noble Alphonse and a lordly Gaston could spend hours politely protesting that the other should go first. Though convulsed...
Died. Lord Nelson of Stafford, 74, British engineer and industrialist, a middle-class merchant's son (born George Horatio Nelson, no kin to the naval hero) who won his peerage by taking over the Depression-stalled English Electric Co. Ltd. in 1933, building it into a giant combine (assets: $250 million) producing everything from the Canberra jet bomber to the smallest vacuum tubes; in Stafford...
...Twentieth Century (CBS. 6-6:30 p.m.). The story of World War II merchant seamen on The Suicide Run to Murmansk. Repeat...
...richest man in Denmark-and reputedly one of the richest in the world-is shy, strapping A. P. (for Arnold Peter) Mø11er, who, at 85, still likes to sail himself to work in his sloop Karama III. In his storybook rise from merchant's apprentice, Mø11er (pronounced roughly Mew-lehr) has always believed in one precept besides making money: do something for Denmark. Mostly, what he has done for Denmark is to invest in it. With the profits earned abroad by his 85-ship Maersk Line and his 25,000-acre Tanganyika sugar plantation...