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...mystery or the morality that gives the play any life. A split-level whodunit should have more concealed and built-in features: who is guilty is very soon obvious, and as a moral drama, The Hidden River lacks flesh and innards. Not only has the problem created the people, instead of the other way round, but the characters are shown too much under mere scrutiny and too little under stress...
...large chunks of their usual big-city vote in civil-rights-conscious areas in the November election, both Democrats and Republicans from the North and the West were ready to combine politics with principle by finding a way to change the Senate's famed Rule XXII and its built-in right of filibuster. Not only did they have the Southern conservative Democrats to contend with; some conservative Republicans and Northern Democrats feared civil rights less than they did a rule change. As the fight readied, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader Bill Knowland got together with opposing forces...
...Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson, decided to try an end run in the debate, based on the idea that the Senate should adopt its rules at the opening of each session-which it has never done. This done, the insurgents could then have a crack at killing the built-in filibuster before the rule could be accepted. But as all Senators knew, such tampering with Senate rules attacks the long-accepted philosophy that the Senate is a continuing body (because it re-elects only one-third of its members at a time...
...advisory Group was praised as a "national medium from which the Democratic Party can attempt to counter the Republican Administration's built-in publicity advantage...
...lengthy visit in Connecticut, has done in the wife of the house from a desire to marry the husband. But the husband has married a movie star instead, and the undiscouraged blonde is now ready to have a go at the second wife by suffocating her in a built-in vault in the library...