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...although not such diehards as Virginia's Harry Byrd, Mississippi's Jim Eastland, Arkansas' John McClellan and J. William Fulbright). House opposition was so weak, in short, that only a few recalcitrant Southerners took the trouble to harangue for the sake of the record. Swiftly the vote came to the floor-a rousing 323-89-and swiftly the word sped to the two Hawaiian officials holding the phones...
Fortnight ago, Minnesota's Humphrey-allied Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party gave a big push to a bill abolishing Minnesota's "costly" ten-year-old primary. Fear of the Humphreyites: G.O.P. voters might cross over in the primary to vote for Kennedy and embarrass Humphrey in his home state. Last week the Kennedy-ites scored in Wisconsin with a surprise play that broke up the attempt of Humphrey's teammates to block Kennedy from next April's Wisconsin primary...
...about to score, State Chairman Patrick J. Lucey, Stevenson-pledged but Kennedy-prone, a protégé of Wisconsin's Johnson-baiting Senator William Proxmire, called a quick meeting of about a dozen of the 27 members of the party's administrative committee, got them to vote for an innocent statement in favor of allowing Wisconsin voters "to participate as fully as possible" in the Wisconsin primary. Then, before anyone knew what he was up to, Chairman Lucey mailed letters of invitation and copies of the statement to seven top Democratic hopefuls: Humphrey, Kennedy, Michigan...
...triumphant headline in the French Communist newspaper L'Humanité, and a balloting in the first of two weeks' municipal elections in 38,000 French communities seemed to bear L'Humanité out. In France's 13 largest cities, the Communists polled 27.7% of the vote, regaining the title of France's largest party from the Gaullist Union for the New Republic, which swept last November's elections to the National Assembly. The U.N.R. polled little more than three-quarters of its previous vote...
...Gaulle was not pleading a necessity, but intending a rebuff. His ministers were almost apologetic in having to deliver it to allies. (Even ultranationalist Premier Michel Debré privately argued against De Gaulle's action.) De Gaulle was plainly 1) miffed at U.S. abstention during the last U.N. vote on the Algerian revolt, 2) determined to be admitted, along with Britain, as a senior partner in the Western alliance...