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...Diligent Beauty Queen. If Powell escaped procedural hanging, he had certainly been drawn and congressionally quartered. By a vote of 27 to 1 the committee adopted stringent measures to control its wayward chairman. Among them were provisions 1) making the committee staff director responsible to the majority rather than Powell; 2) empowering the ranking majority member to report committee-approved bills to the full House, thus ending Powell's ability to pocket veto legislation at will; 3) requiring majority approval of the committee budget and a detailed review of all expense accounts...
President Johnson described the truncated housing bill that came out of the House last week as "an important new milestone" toward racial justice. In a sense, that is so. Even though the measure is far less stringent than many state laws, a federal law naturally has far more impact. Nevertheless, the bill is at best a modest milestone, a halting start toward ending what Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert C. Weaver rightly calls the "most stubborn and universal of the Negro's disadvantages...
...controls over the purchase and possession of guns. Federal law curbs a few things, such as traffic in machine guns, sawed-off shotguns and silencers, but the regulation of firearms has been left largely to cities and states, which have built a crazy quilt of laws, few of them stringent. Until New Jersey enacted a new gun statute last week, no state (and only Philadelphia among U.S. cities) required police permits for buying, keeping, or even roaming Main Street with a shotgun or rifle. Only seven states and a handful of municipalities require permits for handguns...
Though some opponents fear that open-housing will bring Negroes into the suburbs, none of the 17 states or 34 cities that have open-housing laws-several of them far more stringent than the Judiciary Committee's bill-have experienced a noticeable change in housing patterns as a result. All the same, the Administration believes that even the watered-down bill would create an atmosphere unfavorable to discrimination. More important, the law would be a symbol of progress to ghetto Negroes. Already, warned Roy Wilkins, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P., "a large segment of Negro and white Americans...
...suffered a morose procession of 15 different owners and be ome steadily more anemic under each one. By this spring it was down to just 30 pages a day. Circulation was a slim 63,000. The paper was managing to eke out a small profit only through such stringent economies as cutting its reportorial staff to a grand total of four...