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...shouting match. Profanity and horn honking disrupted Communications Satellite Corp.'s session last month. President Darryl F. Zanuck had to outshout hecklers-one of whom came dressed as Cleopatra-at the 20th Century-Fox Films meeting, and shareowners peppered management of the A. & P. with a talkathon that included a suggestion that it make cottage cheese easier to find in its stores. Usually armed with a little bit of stock and a lot of cheek, professional scolds seldom miss a chance to bait corporate officers, make speeches and generally turn the spotlight on themselves...
...Senate first began discussing civil rights on March 9, by week's end had worked 69 calendar days without considering any other major legislation. The longest previous filibuster was a 65-day talkathon in 1846 on the Oregon bill, by which the U.S. resolved to end its agreement with Great Britain providing for joint occupancy of the Oregon Territory...
...would almost surely be overwhelmingly approved today by both branches of Congress. But the Senate, at least, may never get a chance to vote on the merits of Kennedy's bill. Southerners are certain to filibuster, and the Senate has never yet imposed cloture against a civil rights talkathon.* For the two-thirds (67 members) vote required for cloture, the Administration will need support this time from at least 20 Republicans. It may well get that support -but only if it tailors its bill to meet Republican objections...
...With a massive Southern filibuster against civil rights legislation in prospect, Oregon's cantankerous Democratic Senator Wayne Morse announced that he may stage a one-man talkathon of his own against the Administration's $4.5 billion foreign aid request. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara also was grilled warmly on the military-assistance portion of this request by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright joined Morse in charging that some European nations are not adequately sharing the costs of their own defense...
HYRC president Peter J. Wallison '63 explained that the Club's main purpose in coming to Washington is to publicize the strength of the Republican element in the College and not to support the GOP speech-making effort. Wallison pointed out that plans to stage the talkathon were made only last weekend, whereas the Club's trip has been planned for four months...