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...Queen journeyed from Soestdijk Palace to the little Huis Ten Bosch Palace outside The Hague to consult with the leaders of The Netherlands' fiercely independent factions on how to put together a new government. After interrupting her talks for a visit to the dentist, she finally picked Catholic Parliamentarian Norbert Schmelzer, 43, as her informaleur-the man who, under Dutch practice, is empowered to look for the man who might be able to form a new Cabinet. Forming Marijnen's own coalition Cabinet in 1963 took 70 days of agonized negotiation in jealously pluralistic little Holland...
...Italian Communist Party remains formidable, but it is not likely that Togliatti's heirs will succeed where he failed. To the end, he insisted that he was a democrat and a parliamentarian, and over a glass of wine he seemed convincing. But what he truly was Italians call "possibilista"-one who does whatever is possible. And no matter how hard he had tried, the seizure of power in Italy had not been possible to Palmiro Togliatti...
Near adjournment time one afternoon last week, Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen arose in the Senate. "Mr. President," he proclaimed, "I present an amendment in the nature of a substitute." Passing to Senate Parliamentarian Charles Watkins a 74-page rewrite of the House-passed civil rights bill, Ev resonated: "I doubt very much whether in my whole legislative lifetime any measure has received so much meticulous attention...
...personal privilege!" Mansfield ignored him. Case, arms waving and face purpling, kept shouting. By now, Mansfield was getting pretty hot himself. "I do not yield the floor for any purpose!" he cried. For nearly 20 minutes, the two men yelled across the aisle at each other while Teddy and Parliamentarian Charles Watkins flipped frantically through the rule book. Not quite sure of what to do, Democrat Teddy repeatedly thumped his gavel and ordered Republican Case to sit down.* The Democrats then defeated the Williams resolution...
...Bloody Ninth. Cannon's career began in 1911 when he gave up his law practice in Troy, Mo., and went to Washington as confidential secretary to House Speaker Champ Clark. With Clark's encouragement, he became a specialist in parliamentary procedure, was made the House Parliamentarian, later wrote the House parliamentary bibles Cannon's Procedure and Cannon's Precedents...