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Without another word, Fulbright moved that the committee substitute Richards' amendment for Knowland's. Voting with Fulbright for the motion were Republicans Smith, Alexander Wiley and George Aiken, Democrats Walter George, Theodore Green, John Sparkman and Guy Gillette. On record against it went Republicans Knowland, Homer Ferguson, Bourke Hickenlooper and William Langer and Democrat Mike Mansfield. Dulles had won his point, over the opposition of his own party's Senate leaders...
...Kerr is sponsor of the Markham Ferry Dam in his state, to be built by a state authority, aided by federal funds for flood control. A bill to allow the Alabama Power Co. to build dams on the Coosa River, sponsored by Democratic Senators Lister Hill and John Sparkman, was recently passed by Congress (TIME, June 28). On the other hand, Republican Tom Dewey wants new plants at Niagara Falls to be built by the state, whereas Congress and the Administration favor private company development...
Cups & Minesweepers. Under Nevins' skilled hand, his yard turned out such ships (designed chiefly by Sparkman & Stephens) as John Nicholas Brown's Bolero, which has twice been first-boat-in in the Bermuda race; R.J. Schaefer's Edlu I, winner of the 1934 Bermuda; Henry Morgan's Djinn, winner of the Seawanhaka Cup in 1947; Stormy Weather, winner of the ocean race to Norway and the Florida Trophy; R. J. Reynolds' Blitzen, winner of the Miami-Nassau...
...Alabama, U.S. Senator John Jackson Sparkman is facing a real fight for renomination, largely because he was the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1952. His chief opponent, Birmingham's Democratic Representative Laurie Calvin Battle, is campaigning effectively on the charge that Sparkman has let geography be his guide on the civil-rights issue during and since the 1952 campaign. Said Battle: "He kicked it on one side of the Mason-Dixon Line and caught it on the other...
...Attorney General merely recited the cold, indisputable facts surrounding Harry Dexter White (Harvard PhD '30),--facts which were verified in full by J. Edgar Hoover as well as by one of Sparkman's own fellow Southern Democrats. If Brownell's truthful account of the White case happens to conjure up in Sparkman's mind the picture of a thief taking even such an innocent item as a poor little chicken, well, then it's just too bad about the honorable gentleman from Alabama...