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...adopted, but rather as a time-consuming effort to delay the moment of truth. In one day, the Senate had 34 roll calls, an alltime record. Such was the pace that at one point a pro-civil rights Senator rushed onto the floor, heard his name called, shouted "nay," then turned to a colleague and asked just what it was he had voted against. In all, 115 amendments were voted on between cloture and the final vote, and only one of any great substance was approved. That was the package written by Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and approved by Democratic...
...Fleet aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, lying off South Viet Nam in the South China Sea. Prime target for the planes high-speed, still-photo lenses was Route 7, a ribbon of dirt snaking out of Communist North Viet Nam into Laos. Known by Laotians as Thang Nay, or the Big Road, Route 7 has long been used by North Viet Nam's Reds to truck men and guns to the Pathet Lao (up to 400 vehicles a day), in open violation of Laos' neutrality accords. To get closeups of the latest influx, the supersonic reconnaissance craft flat-hatted...
There are collections of epigrams--G.B.S. On Women: "It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. Nay, she often does wait motionless. That is how the spider waits...
...along with the medical diploma and the other parchments of pro fessional achievement on the wall of Dr. Alan R. Grain's Washington, D.C., office hangs a reminder of a recent six-week vacation. It is no mounted marlin or spread of ten-point antlers-only another certificate. "Nay chung-nhan," it begins, which is Vietnamese for "This is to certify," and goes on to let it be known with gold seal and red ribbon that Dr. Grain served this spring as a visiting orthopedic surgeon at the crowded, understaffed Cho-Ray Hospital in Saigon...
Within 30 minutes the fiscal strings were applied to Powell on a voice vote that brought nary a nay. Roosevelt then rose to add: "In view of the action just taken by the House, there does not seem to be much point in continuing this particular discussion." He merely inserted in the record a mild defense of the Education and Labor Committee, of which he is a member. Neither he nor anyone else in the House had a kind word for Powell...