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...John C. Stennis; and Louisiana's peppery Allen Ellender, who held the floor for 25 hours, with overnight recesses, during a 1938 filibuster. "I'm 73 now," says Ellender, "but I wouldn't mind trying it again." Also in the ranks: South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, who holds the alltime Senate wind record with an uninterrupted 24-hr. 18-min. speech during the 1957 civil rights debate; North Carolina's Sam Ervin, who is ready with a waist-high pile of books on constitutional law and a heap of stories about Uncle Ephraim...
...hour program, which was first broadcast last September, included exclusive interviews with Speaker of the House John W. McCormack (D-Mass.), Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.), and Sen. J. Strom Thurmond D.S.C...
Robertson, Va. Russell, Ga. Stennis, Miss. Talmadge, Ga. Thurmond...
Lacking the votes of key Southern Democrats, the National Service Corps faces defeat in the House Rules Committee. But even in the Senate version, which barely passed, 47-44, the inclusion of the Thurmond amendment threatens the bill's efficacy. By making the Corps' activity contingent upon a governor's approval, the amendment needlessly injects the civil rights issue: it will, in effect, prohibit corpsmen from working with Southern Negroes. Inconsistent with a program aimed at aiding needy individuals, the amendment should be excluded from the House draft...
...that state of sprawling suburbia-California. So far this year, there have been 103 bank robberies just in Los Angeles County, an average of two for every three banking days. The holdup men average $6,000-and receive an average seven years in jail if caught. Federal Judge Thurmond Clarke sentences two or three each week in his Los Angeles court. Some 90% of the robbers are amateurs, says Clarke...