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...House, after complicated wrangling, scheduled a vote this week on the Kennedy-Ives labor bill (which neither party likes). Speaker Rayburn set the vote to shift blame for inaction on the bill from Democratic shoulders to Republican, i.e., he would blame the G.O.P. when a motion to suspend rules and take up Kennedy-Ives failed (as expected) to carry a two-thirds vote. To keep blame where it is now, Republicans introduced a new labor bill, prepared to vote against Kennedy-Ives, figured the new bill was a better explanation for doing so. ¶ Indiana's caveman Senator William...
...hand, said Kennedy, the National Association of Manufacturers, after discovering features objectionable to management in the bill, had flooded the House with "intemperate, exaggerated and misleading attacks." Speaker Rayburn chimed in to explain that he sat on the bill 41 days in hope of rounding up votes enough to suspend House rules and bypass Barden's committee. That gambit failed when the N.A.M. stirred up too many "noes...
...behind the government and gave it such a popular boost that some gloating Tories began talking of a snap national election to cash in ("We are riding the crest of the wave"). But Macmillan, who can resist popular outcries if he thinks them wrong (as in his refusal to suspend nuclear tests), showed not the slightest sign of approaching the summit defensively...
Perhaps the execution of ex-Premier Imre Nagy and General Pal Maleter, the most atrocious of the many broken promises made by the Russians, will strike a note of realization in the minds of our recent "peace walkers"-the promise of the Russians to suspend future nuclear tests should be taken with a grain of salt...
...Supreme Court also refused to review U.S. District Judge Harry J. Lemley's order granting the Little Rock school board permission to suspend racial integration at beleaguered Central High School until 1961 (TIME, June 30). In its haste to get a final ruling before Central High reopens in September, the N.A.A.C.P. had carried its case straight to Washington without waiting for a Court of Appeals decision. Supreme Court policy, seldom breached, is to refrain from reviewing lower-court decisions until the Court of Appeals has its say. But recognizing the "vital importance of the time element," the Supreme Court...