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...STROM THURMOND...
Your article failed to report my reasons for introducing a bill to prohibit the service and consumption of alcoholic beverages on airplanes'; the bill's intent is to provide greater safety for passengers on aircraft. STROM THURMOND United States Senate Washington...
...doesn't Senator Strom Thurmond worry more about the social problems of South Carolina rather than alleged "flying saloons...
...Thursday morning 54-year-old Strom Thurmond was still on his feet. Wires from back home began to pour in on other Southerners, demanding that they help Strom Thurmond in his heroic effort. They realized quickly how Thurmond's doublecross had put them on the spot with their constituents. Urgently, angrily, they put in phone calls to home-state newspapers, explaining the harsh facts: Thurmond was not helping the cause; he was playing with dynamite...
Grandstand Wind. Strom Thurmond mumbled on, sipping orange juice sportingly brought to him by Illinois' liberal Paul Douglas, munching diced pumpernickel and bits of cooked hamburger. At 1:40 p.m. he allowed: "I've been on my feet the last 17 hours and I still feel pretty good." At 7:21 p.m. Thurmond broke the old Senate record for longwindedness, set by Oregon's Wayne Morse in the 1953 tidelands oil filibuster.* And at 9:12 p.m., 24 hours and 18 minutes after he started, Thurmond shut up and sat down...