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...Stella school bill. Quickly, Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell, leader of the outfoxed Southern Democrats, was bolt upright, protesting "the lynching of orderly procedure." Maverick Democrat Wayne Morse of Oregon, though ardently pro-civil rights, joined in the protest because "I am opposed to legislation by rider...
...intelligent New Haven rider, for instance, knows that if the road cannot make money, it will go bust-and he will have to find another, more expensive way to work. Many roads fear that raising fares much more will drive more commuters to the auto. But the sturdy rail commuters still left have little taste for exchanging their lot for traffic chaos. The Long Island has raised fares four times since 1956, yet has never lost more than 1% of its commuters after any hike...
...Havana's Provincial Newspaper Guild, Guild President Baldomiro Rios, a fervent Castro disciple, issued a special resolution. Hereafter, proclaimed Rios, any wire-agency story that lied about Castro (meaning put him in a bad light) would, if it appeared in any Cuban paper, be followed by this rider: "This wire story is published voluntarily by this newspaper, making legitimate use of the press freedom existing in Cuba. But newspapermen and graphic workers of this work center express, using that same right, their opinion that the contents of the story are not in conformity with the truth...
...Signed without comment the $3.2 billion foreign-aid appropriations bill-cut by the Congress $704 million below his request-which carried a rider extending for two years the life of the Civil Rights Commission...
...Senate, tacked to the foreign-aid appropriation a bipartisan rider that was the session's only serious civil rights move by either party: a two-year extension of the President's Civil Rights Commission. Result of the rider: a Saturday night filibuster by Southern Democrats, delaying adjournment into this week but not changing the outcome...