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...pork-packed bills are "joy trains." Last week, the aldermen were happily hooking up a typical joy train-a bill to create 1,541 new jobs for friends of the legislators. But this time, as an announcement was made that the balloting would be secret, the galleries rang with protest. Guards who tried to clear out the demonstrators were outshoved. The aldermen adjourned without voting-an inglorious admission that the joy trains of what is probably Brazil's most corrupt body of lawmakers are coming to the end of the line...
Last week, secure in the knowledge that Afrikaners outnumber South Africa's English-speaking citizens, the Nats rammed through legislation for a nationwide referendum on the question. But Parliament rang with the hot passions of the Boer War. Nationalist newspapers exhorted Afrikaners to contribute toward a $420,000 fund to carry on the republic campaign. But in Natal, the stronghold of the English-speaking population, thousands of antirepublicans flocked to Durban's electoral offices to check their registrations for the vote expected in October...
Tanned and relaxed from a week in Florida and Jamaica, Jack Kennedy buoyantly strode into a rally at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel in Clarksburg, W. Va. Cheers from 300 Democrats rang out so loudly that the county Democratic chairman, Benjamin Stout, tumbled right off his perch of official neutrality. Carried away by the excitement, he introduced Kennedy as "a man who probably will be the next President...
...voice of white supremacy rang defiantly in the Birmingham News, which referred to South African Negroes as "extras from a Hollywood safari movie." The Charleston News and Courier ("South Carolina's Most Outspoken Newspaper") used the assassination attempt to draw a parallel with Southern white integrationists: "The fact that it was a white man, not a native, who shot Verwoerd should surprise no one. Though racial revolution has spread across the Dark Continent, it would be easily put down but for the white men whose feelings of guilt, fear or misplaced idealism drive them to fight against their...
...moment of victory was almost anticlimactic. There was no battering-ram cloture vote to beat Southern filibusters into silence (although the Southern minority of 18 included the chairmen of nine powerful Senate committees). The Senate galleries were virtually empty; not a cheer rang through the chamber. But, in a sense, the lack of dramatics was a tribute to superb legislative technique. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Republican Leader Everett Dirksen had allowed plenty of time for Northern liberals and Southern diehards to talk themselves out of election-year invective, then smoothly pushed through the House-approved (TIME, April...