Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seventy years ago, Lord Randolph Churchill delivered a stinging attack on the use of cloture to cut short debate in Britain's Parliament. "The cloture is," said he as quoted in a biography written by his son, "absolutely foreign to all our principles." Last week in the House of Commons, Lord Randolph's son imposed cloture's twin brother, a rarely used debate-halting procedure called "the guillotine...
Pilot Goodwin's story was no isolated case. At Randolph Field, Texas and Mather Field, Calif, last week, twelve other officers (navigators, bombardiers and one pilot) were also facing courts-martial for refusing to fly. At bases all over the nation scores more were flying under bitter protest...
...Pentagon's first impulse was to throw the book at them. "A tempest in a teapot," snorted Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. But as the proportions of the trouble became apparent last week, Vandenberg flew out to Randolph for a first-hand checkup, ordered court martial proceedings dropped in the cases of two flyers...
Divorced. By Pearl (Tired) Bailey, 33, Negro nightclub singer and musicomedienne (Arms and the Girl) : John Randolph Pinkett Jr., 37, her third husband, who, she charged: 1) interfered with her career, 2) hit her with a telephone, and 3) "split my skull open" with a pistol; after almost four years of marriage; in Las Vegas...
Excepting C-entry, where the rooms are small, the large suites and spacious bath-tubs (in Randolph and Westmorly) make for a comfortable three years stay.DAVID M. LITTLE...