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...anti-cloture Senators had good excuses to be away from Washington-Arkansas' William Fulbright found that he had a speaking engagement in New York, Nevada's Alan Bible and Arizona's Carl Hayden were on business trips home. At voting time, Virginians Harry Byrd and Willis Robertson, North Carolina's B. Everett Jordan and Arkansas' John McClellan simply stayed away. Explained McClellan later: "I would never vote for cloture, but I wasn't going to help those people [the Morse band]." Similarly, such anti-clo-ture Senators as West Virginia's Robert Byrd...
...race against Vim. As small-craft warnings fluttered along the Rhode Island coast, the two boats ran boldly before the 25-knot wind, working up speeds as high as 12 knots, lee rails awash and scant yards of churning ocean separating their glistening hulls. Aboard Vim, Helmsman Archie Robertson braced himself against the cockpit wall and strained to hold the wheel steady. Aboard Gretel, Skipper Jock Sturrock wiped salt spume from his eyes and cursed his broken compass...
...many more opportunities for daring experimentation, the academy chapel was always a prickly assignment, for it required the approval of Congress itself for the first major Government-supported marriage of religion and modern architecture in the U.S. When the final plan was in, Virginia's Senator A. Willis Robertson said it looked like "an assembly of wigwams," and Congressman Errett P. Scrivner demanded to know why Congress should appropriate more than $3,000,000 for so many spires when one spire per church had usually been sufficient in the past. The cost cutters won a modest victory...
...Supreme Court ruling on prayers in the schools should not come as a blow to anyone. It appears to be a completely logical step in our religious demise. What is needed is not another amendment, such as that proposed by Senators Stennis and Robertson, for such an addition to the Constitution would indeed be an inadequate bandage for such a large sore. We must redefine the First Amendment and do away with all of this "separation of church and state" nonsense...
...Robertson County officials conducted no autopsy, found none of the spent bullets. They allowed the truck to be washed without determining if the blood was Marshall's, handled the rifle before checking for fingerprints. They could not even be certain that the rifle was the death weapon-but they immediately ruled the death a suicide...