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...founding. To pare down the time it takes for all of the delegations to vote, the desks were fitted out with buttons connected to a pair of large electronic boards beside the podium-green lights will flash on for aye, red for nay, yellow for abstention...
Some Senate liberals, mostly Democrats but with the backing of a handful of Republicans, were filibustering against the Dirksen rider. When Dirksen tried to invoke cloture, he failed. The filibustering liberals were joined in their nay votes by Southern Democrats who, although for the rider, defend filibusters as a matter of principle. Therefore the cloture motion lost, 63 to 30. The vote plainly did not reflect Senate sentiment about the Dirksen breather, as such, and on a subsequent motion to kill Dirksen's rider for good by tabling it, 49 Senators voted to keep it alive, with 38 against...
...Clifford Case, Maine's Margaret Chase Smith, and California's Thomas Kuchel. Voting no were 16 Democrats-all Southerners, with the exception of Ohio's Frank Lausche-and 28 Republicans, including G.O.P. Presidential Nominee Barry Goldwater, who flew in from Phoenix to cast his "nay," then flew out again...
...with California Republican H. Allen Smith joining four Democrats in opposition-to send the bill to the House floor with a recommendation for approval. And next day, by a lopsided 289 to 126 (with 153 Democrats and 136 Republicans voting aye, 91 Democrats and 35 Republicans voting nay), a cheering House of Representatives gave final and historic approval...
...private collection in the world can match it. An enormous black two-story hall houses a kind of cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the Absurd Berlin Diary of Emilio Vedova, with collapsible hinged parts jagging out in a variety of Gothic shapes. Three Paintings in Space by Ernst Wilhelm Nay are obliquely suspended from the ceiling of an otherwise entirely empty hall...