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...Democratic opposite number, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. The Democratic Senators picked to go to Moscow: Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee; Rhode Island's John Pastore, chairman of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee; Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey and Alabama's John Sparkman, both heads of Foreign Relations subcommittees...
...victory for no one; Southern Democrats probably lost the least, Morse's liberals the most. The principle of unlimited debate, so dear to the South, had been dented (but the Southerners were still so delighted at knocking over the Morse group that Alabama's John Sparkman, who voted against cloture, posed grinningly for victory pictures with pro-cloture leaders). Republicans laid themselves open to the charge that they will support cloture on an issue involving business, but not on one involving civil rights. The Morse liberals suffered more complicated effects. In their unceasing efforts to achieve civil rights...
...busy "picking apples" to speak out for the Democratic ticket-and the state has gone Republican each time. Byrd did not endorse Ike in 1952, but he did tell Virginians by radio that "I will not, and cannot, in good conscience endorse the national Democratic platform or the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket." In 1956 he said nothing at all. In 1960 he announced only that "I have found at times that silence is golden." Republican Nixon carried Democratic Virginia by more than 42,000 votes...
...Minority Leader Everett Dirksen slyly christened them "living profiles in courage") who had made defeat possible-actually a third of the Senate's Democrats. They included such prominent Democrats as Foreign Relations Chairman William Fulbright, Ace Investigator John McClellan, moderate Liberal Mike Monroney, former Vice Presidential Candidate John Sparkman, and Armed Services Chairman Richard Russell, as well as Hayden, Randolph and Kerr...
Under the friendly prodding of expert sailor "Corny" Shields, Chris-Craft, which has confined itself exclusively to "stinkpots," is considering going into the sailboat business. The leading U.S. naval architects, Sparkman & Stephens, have designed for Chris-Craft a 34-ft. fiberglass motor sailer. The new sailboat would give Chris-Craft an entry into a market even larger than the cabin cruiser trade...