Word: question
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...great advantage to such strategy is that it bypasses the Russell Amendment to Rule XXII. The major drawback is that it forces the issue not on the question of the filibuster, but on whether the Senate is a continuing body. In the past, the appeal of sitting in the selfsame, continuing Senate as Webster. Clay and Calhoun has been too compelling for many a Senator otherwise sympathetic to civil rights causes...
Rayburn just let things simmer, then last week he allowed the senior insurgent, California's eight-term Chet Holifield, to enter his office and raise the rules question. Then he gave the answer: No. With little more than the whimper of a face-saving press release, the Democratic revolt curled up and died...
What Will Jacques Do? The question that most piqued Parisian curiosity at week's end was what would happen to Jacques Soustelle, the fiery "wrecker of Cabinets" who masterminded the revolt that led to De Gaulle's return to power. Ambitious Jacques Soustelle clearly felt he deserved one of the senior Cabinet posts-Defense, Foreign Affairs or Interior -rather than his present Ministry of Information. But the widespread (and possibly exaggerated) suspicion of his tactics and his intentions makes many fear the prospect that as head of the Interior he would control the police. When newsmen queried...
Wrote Admiral Shima, in English: "I am deeply impressed by your spirit of study in the war history, and am glad to answer your question. It is happy for me to think if my explanations written on the attached papers would be useful to you." The admiral went on testily to assert that "little information concerning actions of Shima fleet during the battle are found in the U.S., and many reports . . . were written neither with ample knowledge nor facts of actual features." He defended himself against Critic James A. Field Jr., who wrote in The Japanese at Leyte Gulf that...
...Catholic Hour (NBC, 1:30-2:30 p.m.). A question-and-answer session in which Catholic Writer John Cogley of the Fund for the Republic and Jesuit Professor (English) Walter J. Ong of St. Louis University examine the tensions between Catholics and non-Catholics...