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...cancellation of a juicy $20 million Soviet pipe order. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer rushed back home from a Lake Como vacation on the eve of the balloting, managed to avoid humiliating defeat only by ordering his Christian Democrats to stay off the floor, thus causing the lack of a quorum. Der Alte's last-ditch maneuver proved his solid support of the U.S., which, unlike most of its allies, attaches great strategic significance to Moscow's pipeline network. But it got Adenauer into trouble at home. The pro-NATO Socialists called the Bundestag boycott dirty pool; the industrialists complained...
...tension and conflict and suspense. By keeping the Senate in session around the clock, the majority tried to wear the filibustering minority down in an ordeal of exhaustion. Cots were set up in the Senate cloakroom, and bleary, rumpled Senators stumbled from them to answer middle-of-the-night quorum calls...
Friday night, Cannon pettishly demanded a quorum call. By this time, as Cannon well knew, there were scores of Representatives back home campaigning. There was no quorum, so the House had to meet again the next...
...Saturday there was a House quorum, and the surly Representatives voted down Cannon's money-saving motions. That brought a furious floor blast from Cannon against the whole political atmosphere on the Hill. "Gentlemen," he roared, "justice is for barter and sale to the highest bidder. No one thinks about principle any more. They are ready to sell justice!" Then he proceeded to astonish his colleagues with direct, personal attacks on the leaders of his own party in the House, wound up with a withering slap at Speaker John McCormack. "I have sat under ten Speakers," roared Cannon...
...suggested that Brazil is in for more and worse trouble. So loud was the squabbling in the outback capital of Brasilia in the last session that Congress proved itself incapable of passing legislation aimed at solving Brazil's desperate economic and social problems. It rarely even produced a quorum. Since then, the problems have only grown worse. Last week Finance Minister Miguel Calmon reported that Brazil owes foreign oil suppliers $45 million and cannot pay, and that the trade deficit for the first nine months of 1962 stands at $162 million...