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...Washington has forgotten the Thanksgiving Day Massacre," as the riot was quickly dubbed. The Afro-American and Rep. Adam Clayton Powell both took the opportunity to predict that the District would have "a fantastic race riot," as the Afro put it, if Negro living condition did not attempts are made to integrate a city as an example of what happens when attempts are made to integrate a city which is largely Negro...
...House Rules Committee, Mr. Kennedy is indebted to two liberal Southerners, who can be expected to oppose the rights measure. Thus, unless the votes of two committee Republicans can be won over, the bill may die in the hearing room, or at least be seriously delayed again. Consider that Rep. Halleck thinks some of the sections of the subcommittee's bill "would be most difficult for me to support," consider that Sen. Dirksen finds portions of even the weaker bill unpalatable, and it is easy to see why the President wants to tone the strong bill down...
...speech by Rep. Edwin E. Willis originally scheduled for Friday has been cancelled. Rep. Willis was to speak at the Law School Forum on "The Future of the House Un-American Activities Committee...
...Rep. Roland Libonati (D-III.), at the end of 75 minutes of nearly straight talking late in the afternoon, told the students that he would withdraw his amendment to the voting rights section of the House Judiciary Subcommittee's proposed civil rights bill...
...lobbyists thought they had made an impression on some Congressmen, but a few Congressmen, particularly Rep. William McCullough (R-Ohio) and Rep. George Senner (D-Arix.), were so firmly committed to the Administration's bill that they were not receptive to the students' argument. McCullough and Libonate did most of the talking themselves...