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...Congress, Powell distinguished himself by his freshman rumbles with the late, unreconstructed John Rankin of Mississippi, by his absenteeism (he is an inveterate traveler, has made 15 trips to Venice), and by a demagogic device known as "the Powell Amendment" - a desegre gation rider that he tries to tack, at every, opportunity, onto school, housing or labor bills. It instantly arouses Southern oppo sition and Northern anguish, has killed at least one worthy bill and made Powell the most unpopular man in Congress. With the retirement of North Carolina's Graham Barden at the end of the present session...
...These things," said Manuel Ycaza, "are beneath the dignity of a man whose family has a coat of arms." The things that Jockey Ycaza (pronounced ee-kah-za) was talking about were the tactics that once won him the reputation of racing's roughest rider. But Ycaza, at 22, is already a reformed fellow. And though he is calmly vague about the details of his coat of arms (asked what it is, he replies: "Why, it is a coat of arms for the Ycaza family"), many a follower of the new Ycaza might suggest that it be a whip...
...Owner Harry F. Guggenheim of Cain Hoy Stable gave Ycaza a chance to redeem himself by hiring him as contract rider. Ycaza liked Cain Hoy. "It is like a family stable," he says. "They are all very nice to me." In that climate, he began mending his ways. "I wished to improve," says Ycaza. "To wish is a big thing." It was certainly a big thing to Cain Hoy-the U.S.'s leading money-winning stable last year, with purses totaling...
...past eight years, as spiritual shepherd of Methodists in Southern California, Arizona and Hawaii, Bishop Kennedy has proved himself a tireless circuit rider. His 403 churches span 2,500 miles, embrace 225,000 members. He visits them all (he once dropped in on 23 parishes in one month) and averages seven sermons or speeches a week. Amid all his momentum, Bishop Kennedy can be pungently articulate. Examples: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: "It simply doesn't work. Look at the crime rates." AMERICAN EDUCATION : "A kind of state-supported baby-sitting service." SOUTH AFRICA: "The foundation of law has been destroyed...
...capital-punishment hearing took place against the stir and clamor of mounting agitation to save Chessman from the "green room," as Death Row inmates call it. An auto caravan pulled into Sacramento bringing 384 University of California faculty signatures on a petition urging abolition of capital punishment. A rodeo rider, billed as a "minuteman," drove his tired horse from San Francisco to Sacramento, picking up save-Chessman signatures along the way. An unemployed schoolteacher named Norbert Nicholas was in the fourth day of a save-Chessman hunger strike in Sacramento. At the capitol building, a sprinkling of demonstrators displayed placards...