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Southern opposition to the change will maintain that the Senate is a continuing body, and that its old rules still apply. (There is no limitation on debate whatsoever on a motion to change Rule XXII, the rule which now provides for closure.) And certain intrinsic aspects of their argument, especially the fact that two-thirds of the Senate's membership holds over, lends logical support to this view, although it has never been directly tested. Yet in the case of these Southerners, at least, a basic opposition to civil rights legislation is he underlying rationale...
...said he had campaigned "on the promise to work for a liberalization of Senate Rule XXII, to achieve a more reasonable cloture." Rule XXII permits closing of debate only upon the vote of two-thirds of the members or 64 Senators...
...Democratic Senators, led by Hubert H. Humphrey (Minn.) and Paul Douglas (Ill.), initiated this newest attempt to revise Rule XXII. The six northern Democratic liberals were joined recently by two Eastern Republicans, Irving Ives (N.Y.) and Clifford Case...
...example of some the best in college humor is "At the Pleasure XXII." It treats, with outlandish seriousness, the recent Fisher Affair with its "Cloak and Dagger" aspects. The author presents some imaginary notes from the diary of the harried undergraduate underground organizer. "Wednesday. Enervated this morning. I think I am being poisoned by my enemies . . . To Students' Clinic in Hygiene Building, where examined after registering under false name . . . Retired early. Arranged some pillows to appear like sleeping form in my bed, spent the night on floor underneath...
...upsetters of thrones in history. But while Otto of Austria, Peter of Yugoslavia, George of Greece might hope (however mistakenly) one day to resume their royal careers, the Hohenzollerns could scarcely even cherish illusions. As a ruling dynasty they seemed to be as safely mummified as Egypt's XXII Dynasty...