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Idle Gestures. The week's first roadblock loomed up when Johnson cast around for the two-thirds Senate vote needed to override the White House vetoes of 1) the bill to freeze farm price supports at 1957 levels and 2) the lard-heavy rivers-and-harbors authorization. He soon counted too many Republican noes. "I don't believe in idle gestures," said he, and gracefully helped the farm bill along to an agriculture committee that will probably let it mildew for the rest of the session. The pork-barrel bill went to the Public Works Committee...
...Human Roadblock? Next day Attorney General William P. Rogers called a news conference to explain the legal basis for the agreement as he saw it. The agreement rests, he said, upon his own constitutional interpretation that, given disability, only the powers of the presidency and not the office of the presidency devolve upon the Vice President. Even so, said Rogers, the situation would be much clearer with a constitutional amendment that would 1) require the Vice President to get majority approval from the Cabinet, i.e., from the President's own personal appointees, before declaring the President disabled...
Earlier in the week a bipartisan group of Senators led by Illinois Republican Everett McKinley Dirksen and Tennessee Democrat Estes Kefauver had proposed a new constitutional amendment that said substantially that. But the amendment was bound to run into a roadblock in the person of House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who is determined that Congress shall have the decisive voice as to whether the President is disabled...
...rushed the gun, grappled with Starkweather, got the rifle just as Deputy Sheriff William Romer happened by. Caril Fugate leaped out of the car and ran screaming to the deputy. In the confusion Starkweather climbed into his stolen Packard, sped away as Deputy Romer radioed ahead for a roadblock. Starkweather raced through the roadblock at better than 100 m.p.h. with the cops in hot pursuit, stopped when a police rifle bullet ripped through the Packard and shattered the windshield...
...tobacco factory was put to the torch, and fire trucks were held off with a hailstorm of bricks and paving stones. Tear-gas bombs thrown by the outnumbered and disorganized troops were picked up by schoolboys and hurled back. Three Turks died by gunfire as they drove through a roadblock near the burned-out garage; two others were slain at the foot of Othello's Tower in Famagusta. Before the mobs were dispersed, seven were dead, more than 100 injured in the worst rioting Cyprus had yet seen...