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...state's first civil rights bill since Reconstruction-a low-pressure measure setting up a commission to promote racial harmony-and opened the way for such dry cities as Nashville and Memphis to vote on the sale of liquor by the drink. This week it is expected to repeal the old "monkey law" that prohibits the teaching of evolution. Alabama has redistributed gas-tax funds and other revenues, increasing the slice for urban Jefferson County (Birmingham) from $1,700,000 this year to an estimated $6,400,000 next year...
...conceived, hastily passed 1966 Presidential Election Campaign Fund Act the upper chamber's overriding concern. The measure would give up to $30 million each to the Republican and Democratic parties from $1 contributions checked off federal income tax returns. Though the Senate has already voted three times to repeal it, Long's crusade for his by-blow brainchild has been pressed with a fanatic zeal that has eroded the almost illimitable patience of his colleagues...
...powers of endurance-are no laughing matter. As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, with lusty behind-the-scenes bravos from the Administration, which looks longingly toward the Long green in campaign treasure promised by his act, he has been in the catbird seat right from the beginning. Repeal of his act was tacked on as an amendment to the important investment tax-credit bill* sought by business and the Administration. Long simply faced down Senate custom-which dictates that a chairman protect committee bills from outside amendments-and allowed a plethora of fellow Senators' pet projects...
Long met his third defeat last week after a 52-to-46 vote upholding an amendment by Tennessee's Senator Albert Gore that would repeal the Long act. As they have ever since the beginning of the struggle, Senate Republicans voted virtually en masse against the act, which would give the traditionally money-short Democrats extra campaign funds. Even with his latest rebuff, Long was not about to quit. "If need be," he said, "we ought to stay here until Christmas or New Year's to do what is best for the country." Snapped Mansfield: "I cannot believe...
...Rehovot last spring, relatives of a farmer whose body had been examined by autopsy ran amuck in a hospital, injuring 20 persons including physicians and nurses. Last October, Israel's two chief rabbis, joined by 356 other religious leaders, called for repeal of the 1953 law. Ever since, the Orthodox dissenters, led by the ultra-rightist Agudath Israel Party, have stepped up a grisly campaign against postmortems. Fortnight ago, they accused a Tel Aviv hospital of stealing the heart of a rabbi's wife after she died...