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...debatable and therefore not subject to filibuster during the "morning hour"-which actually begins at noon and lasts for two hours. Mans field wanted to call up the civil rights bill during the morning hour and plunge right into the debate. But when he asked for unanimous consent to dispense with the reading of the previous day's Journal, Russell objected...
...trial had not testified on his own behalf dur ing the five-day presentation of his defense case. "We don't think he's mental ly capable of going on the stand," explained Attorney Belli. Had Ruby agreed with that? "Jack just sort of mumbled his consent," said Co-Counsel Joe Tonahill. Instead of the defendant...
...every four applicants for a posthumous marriage is turned down, for the law requires that the man must have proved his consent "unequivocally," by posting of the banns at the local town hall, say, or written permission from a soldier's commanding officer. Simple pregnancy is not enough. "Trouble is," says one high Justice Ministry official, "many a woman comes to us brandishing just a letter from her dead fiancé, promising to marry her. That won't do it, legally. Think of all the Frenchmen who write such promises to three or four mistresses...
Sorensen is not concerned with the executive machinery or with Utopian plans for its overhaul. He states his thesis simply: "the fundamental nature of the White House makes it inevitable that vital decisions, either many or few, will be made there, either by the President or with his consent, and that the same basic forces and factors will repeatedly shape these decisions...
...attempt to rectify racial imbalance must proceed within the frameworks of the neighborhood school, Eisenstadt continued. He said the school committee will never consent to bus transportation of school children because it is far too expensive and is more "a disruptive than a unifying influence" in the community. "We want evolution, not revolution," he added...