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...Senate met after a Sunday recess, the compromise machinery went into gear. Knowland offered a closure motion, and it was beaten, as he knew it would be. When the filibusterers began offering their amendments, Knowland asked for unanimous consent to limit debate. The filibustering bloc warned him that they would not stand for a knife at their throats, and Knowland backed down. An amendment to kill all domestic portions of the bill was beaten. Then an amendment to modify the patent features of the bill and extend the licensing period on atomic inventions from five to ten years was passed...
...Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 55, likely during the court's summer recess to turn up anywhere, turned up in Australia hobnobbing with outbackers. After a week's trial of aboriginal delicacies, he was still in ruddy good health. Sample daily menu: scrambled turtle eggs for breakfast, stuffed high-jumping wallaby for lunch, roast flying fox (an outsize bat) for dinner...
...When the recess bell sounded at 11:48 p.m. Saturday, the Senate, but for a 25-minute break in Friday's wee hours, had been in session for a record-shattering 85 hours, 33 minutes. At that point, the filibuster had only one major effect: it exploded Knowland's fond hopes for a Senate adjournment at month...
...recess time at 3:14 the next morning, the House had gone through its longest session in years, and Joe Martin's slim Republican majority, assisted by a band of conservative Democrats, had beaten back the advocates of public power. By a vote of 172 to 115, the House threw out a rider aimed at canceling President Eisenhower's order for the AEC to buy electricity from private power companies. Then it approved, 161 to 118, a provision that was the precise opposite of language tacked onto the bill in the Senate: where the Senate wanted the Atomic...
Fame carried her to Hollywood in 1919, and here the sober script calls a thoroughly slap-happy recess to watch a flag-waving Helen, as the star of the film Deliverance (supposedly based on her life story), lead the charge of a revolutionary rabble across something that looks suspiciously like Concord Bridge...