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After about 26 hours of debate and after turning down a series of limiting amendments, the Senate passed the resolution 85-3. Only Morse, Langer and Lehman voted nay. Many of the 85 Senators still had deep doubts, but their position was aptly summed up by Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Said she: "The situation is such that we do not have the luxury of freedom of choice in this matter . . . The circumstances do not permit us the liberty to differ with the President on this resolution. For if we did, and the resolution were defeated...
...yard orthodox breast stroke matches of this year's two team-record breakers. The Middies' Jerry Nay set a new Academy mark this season with a 2:37.9. This figure will force the Crimson's Sigo Falk to reproduce his own varsity record of 2:36.6, which he set in his last meet. John Fowler will probably swim with Falk in this event tonight, since Bill Hoadley, Falk's running mate to date, is nursing a virus...
...Thynggs are tuffe here, ywis. Thre times in this dretched yere hath this our Fayr Demesne been sore aforbled of the hungrie bande that Slounketh out of the Woode called Holly. Nay, the Table Round hath more mouthes in this twelvemonth fedd than ever it didde the whiles Kyng Arthur supped him there. First comith that pritty knight Sir Robert, the Taylor yclept, and feigneth to bee Launcelot, and then harde after hym ye yongge esquirt Robert a Wagner, yt callith himselfe Prince Valiant...
...Nay, more, nor kann this knight e'en parler ye Englysshe langue, bot muttereth mayhappe in Frensshe, as, 'Yagottalissena me. Englans gonnabeen vaded.' Aye, say'st'ou, but when ye Ladd doth feutre him into Patricia's chambre for love's sake, aye, what then? What then bot shende and shame to the Table Round! for hee doth take Discretioun for ye bettre part of Valoure...
...North Dakota's William Langer and Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy. When the manna-hunters' sniping subsided, the Senate passed and sent to conference with the House the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1954. The final Senate tally: 62-28. Voting "aye" were 44 Republicans, 18 Democrats. Voting "nay" were Wayne Morse, 24 Democrats and three Republicans. The three: Minnesota's Ed Thye, Bill Langer and Joe McCarthy...