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...State Rep. Irving Fishman (D-Newton) was the only speaker to succeed in quelling the hecklers. He asked them to respect his right to "free speech" and for a while they were silent...
While he said he would not take an active part in the New York mayoral campaign, Nixon declared he will vote for Rep. John V. Lindsay (R-N.Y.), rather than Conservative candidate William F. Buckley Jr. He called Lindsay "a fresh new voice in New York...
...Dirksen (R.-III.) demanded a Congressional inquiry into the temporary suspension of funds. Speaking at a news conference in Chicago, Dirksen suggested that the Senate Committee on Labor, Education, and Welfare take up the matter and declared that he was "going to get to the bottom of this." Rep. Roman C. Tucinski (D-Ill.) asked the General Accounting Office -- the watchdog over distribution of federal funds -- to investigate the legality of withholding funds under the Civil Rights...
...took an almost incredible conjunction of forces--an active resident, a willing Speaker, and the most liberal congress in history--to bring the Home Rule bill to the floor of the House. Now it has been side-tracked; Rep. Albert feels that it is "a dead duck for this session" and Washington residents can only guess how long it will be before they come as close to self government again...
Commenting on the hemisphere quota, Sen. Jacob K. Javits (Rep. N.Y.) said that the limit would disturb "the unique relationship that exists among the nations of the new world...I think this limitation will contribute to the impairment of better hemispheric relations in which we have been so intensely interested...