Word: moments
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From the Pulpit. Lyndon Johnson himself seemed to sense the moment as he studied the faces that gazed at him. In the visitors' gallery were Lady Bird, Lynda (Luci stayed home to study), and their guest J. Edgar Hoover; on the House floor were scores of former colleagues, the Cabinet, Chief Justice Warren and four Associate Justices of the Supreme Court. Other faces were conspicuous for their absence. The entire congressional delegations of Mississippi and Virginia and a host of fellow Southerners had deliberately stayed away...
Limited Franchise. The voting rights bill did not spring entirely from spur-of-the-moment shock at the outrages in Selma. Back in November, the President had ordered White House aides and Justice Department attorneys to begin designing a powerful and unprecedented measure to assure Negro voting rights. Well aware that it would be subjected to a quick and savage attack from the South on constitutional grounds, Johnson warned Katzenbach: "I want this bill completely legal." That was possible. But to make it completely tamperproof was another matter...
...bill stands now, it appears to answer the needs of the moment and ought to pass both houses handily. For once, a Senate civil rights filibuster seems unlikely. The proposal was introduced on the Senate floor last week by 64 co-sponsors-44 Democrats and 20 Republicans. To make certain that it does not get stuck in Mississippi Senator James Eastland's Judiciary Committee, the Senate voted 67 to 13 to instruct Segregationist Eastland to return the bill to the floor no later than April 9. The House hopes to vote by mid-April, and will probably produce...
Weekending at his ranch in Texas, President Johnson called a press conference on an issue of moment. Viet Nam? Selma? Space? All in good time. What Johnson wanted most to talk about, it seemed, was his dealings with the press, which in recent months have been both infrequent and invidious (TIME, March...
After 15 Lbs. In 1946 the born-and-bred New Yorker chose acting as the easiest thing to do on the G.I. Bill sides the Dramatic Workshop was then near Madison Square Garden, and "I didn't want to miss too many events." At the moment, having lost bringing in Odd Couple, Matthau considers acting "the hardest job known to mankind," and he works and worries his craft to unusual perfection...