Word: weak
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...Colored People, the Americans for Democratic Action and the A.F.L.-C.I.O., all of which, after years of making 100% civil rights an article of faith, were now willing to settle for less. Editorialists and cartoonists who only a few weeks before had been denouncing the Senate's weak bill were now denouncing the Republicans for opposing it (see cartoons). Liberal Northern Democrats, let off the hook by the retreat of the N.A.A.C.P., the A.D.A., et al, delightedly accepted the Senate bill and the unexpected opportunity to avoid a North-South Democratic Party split...
...decision made, the members of the so-called civil rights "Leadership Conference" rounded up other civil rights organizations, issued a bombastic statement backing the weak Senate bill ("The millions of victims of discrimination and intolerance have every right to demand completed legislative action this year...
...Word spread that Harry Truman's Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, had helped author the amendment that weakened the bill by requiring jury trials in contempt cases. The New York Times, which had scored the jury trial amendment a few days before, urged the Senate to pass the weak bill as the best possible. So did ardently pro-Ike New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond. So did the civil-righteous Washington Post and Times Herald: famed Post Cartoonist Herbert Block (Herblock), who is forever lampooning Eisenhower for indecisiveness, did an astonishing turnabout to sketch an impulsive Ike pointing...
Remaining Question. In such an overwhelming atmosphere of moderation, even the tough-bill Republicans could not see their way clear to voting against a weak bill, and civil rights finally whisked through the Senate by a vote of 72 to 18 (voting yes were 43 Republicans and 29 Democrats, including Florida Democrat George Smathers; voting no were 17 Southerners plus anti-anti-Democrat Wayne Morse of Oregon). Indeed, the only remaining question was whether the House of Representatives, having already passed the strong Administration bill (286-126), would approve a Senate product best liked by the Southerners who voted against...
Revolutionizing radar may just be the start for ORDIR. The device's distinctive signal can be applied to many communication systems, will be especially helpful in weak signal situations. One possible use in the future: flashing a signal to earth from a satellite. Concludes Columbia's Dean Dunning: "The system seems to alter the whole concept of how we're going to communicate over long distances and in outer space...