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...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...
...lieu of prosperity, Rabinowitch happily settled for an audience that amounted to a handful of impressive clock watchers. The Bulletin's 27,500 subscribers girdle the globe-36 in Russia-and they can muster more scientific, diplomatic and statesmanship credentials than any world conference in Geneva...
Last Thursday the Northerners nearly failed to muster a quorum. Fortunately, several of their Dixie colleagues strode into the chamber at the last moment, drawled "present," and spared the nascent coalition an embarrassing setback. Last Saturday morning however, Southern generosity evaporated and the Senate adjourned, without a quorum, after forty-five minutes of self-conscious foot-shuffling by the leadership. Senator Humphrey's commitment and energy haven't flagged. After last week, the same is hard to say of the men he is trying to lead...
...days the Republican leadership delayed adjournment, tried desperately and loyally to muster the votes. But whatever support they may have had earlier had now withered before Rocky's stinging accusations. The liquor bills were overwhelmingly beaten (the key measure by 100 to 39) in a bitter nighttime session. Stunned by his worst political defeat, Rocky called a press conference at 1:30 in the morning, announced that he would demand that the legislature return for a special session April 15 to pass the liquor reforms...
...squeaked through a vote by a particularly thin margin, the old man comforted the younger: "In the House of Commons, one vote is enough." Last week Ted Heath, now President of the Board of Trade, had the uncomfortable opportunity to test that axiom. The Tories, who nowadays can usually muster a majority of 80 votes or so, just barely managed to survive a vote by the wafer-thin margin...