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...Stevenson stopped and stared, some 60 Negroes burst into the gallery, scrambled down the aisle shouting "Lumumba!'' flailed wildly at the astonished guards. One woman, shrieking like a banshee, laid out a cop with a skull blow from her spike-heel shoe. It took 15 minutes to drag the screaming, kicking demonstrators outside, where they continued their demonstration on the sidewalk. Some may have been Communist, but most were merely excited members of Manhattan Negro factions. But the Communists lost no time in exploiting them; Party Secretary Ben Davis turned up, got himself photographed being hustled...
...with so much teaching that they can do little or no research. They prefer the institutes, which do research only. Attempts by education authorities to make the institutes into centers of scientific education have come to little. The institute directors will not cooperate because they regard teaching as a drag on research...
Even for bills that cannot command a two-thirds majority, there are two possible detours around the Rules Committee, but they are lumpy, uphill roads, rarely traveled. Any Congressman can drag a bill out of the Rules Committee if he can get a majority of the entire membership of the House to sign a "discharge petition," but many members disapprove of this approach, refuse to sign a petition even when they favor the stalled bill. During the half-century that the House has had some kind of discharge procedure, only two measures-the Fair Labor Standards...
...know if it's the State Department's fault, or President Eisenhower's fault, or the American public's fault for allowing this case to drag on," said Connie McKone during her troubled time. "I guess there's enough blame to go around. One thing I'll never forgive our Government for is telling us absolutely nothing about the fate of our husbands. We had to hear the first word about their capture on television . . . I realize things are done we can't be told about, but I won't feel everything...
Good Reason. If no bird was the clear winner at the end of some 20 minutes, the pair was taken back to a "drag pit" behind the main arena and set to scrapping again. In one fight a cock belonging to Kentucky's Best and Kelly stable refused to quit, although it was repeatedly "shot gunned" (slashed in the head by both its opponent's spurs). At one point, the handler of the losing bird put half of its bloody head in his mouth to warm its damaged brain, blew on its body to keep a wound from...