Word: present
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggested changes are twofold. The first involves new procedures for closing Senate debate by a two-thirds majority of those present after two days of debate, or by a simple majority of those present after fifteen days. The anti-filibuster drive is headed primarily by men who fear the power of Southern conservatives in blocking civil rights legislation and who are willing to abandon a long-standing Senate tradition of talkativeness to achieve their civil rights objectives...
...filibuster, though it has in recent times assumed the cast of evil, is a respectable safeguard against the vagaries of democracy. Instead of allowing its elimination by a small group of Senators, it would seem far wiser to establish the two-thirds-of-those-present rule as the necessary number to limit debate. Such a compromise will permit the passage of needed civil rights measures without sabotaging a truly useful protection of minority rights...
Wilbur K. Jordan announced today his retirement as President of Radcliffe College. His resignation, however, will not become effective until June 30, 1960. Radcliffe has made no mention of possible successors to the President, who has served in his present capacity since...
Every winter, as the Ivy League squash season draws to a close, one fact remains the same. The Crimson may be found close to the head of the list and generally at the very top, and this year will provide no exception. The evils of graduation are ever present, great players come and go, but coach Jack Barnaby's squads win with an almost frightening consistency...
...were looking up. The road was in the black for November, with earnings wiping out the ten-month deficit of $2,872,716. He expects that the Pennsy will be in the black for the year. For 1959, Bevan was only mildly pessimistic: he warned that unless volume exceeds present expectations, "the earnings outlook is not particularly good...