Word: talkathon
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...could thus be called up for a time-consuming vote. The Senate had run through only about 200 of them-and seven days, including one 37-hour session-when serious moves began among the Senate leadership to curtail the filibuster. The two filibuster leaders said they would end the talkathon if Carter asked them to do so. But Byrd advised the White House to stay out of the Senate's business. He would take care of the filibuster his own way. What followed was a unique show of parliamentary force that outraged much of the Senate...
...formidable fighters for home rule and desegregation in the District. Relishing his independence, he delivered his record filibuster against a bill giving away offshore oil lands to the coastal states. Mindful that his hero La Follette had almost been poisoned by some tainted eggnog he had sipped during a talkathon, Morse had an aide scrutinize the preparation of his tea, orange juice and bouillon. Only poisoned words flowed that memorable night in the Senate...
...conversation is, in short, the conventional chatter of the well-traveled. What is unconventional about the discussion is that Ann is in New York, Garry in California, Bob in Virginia and the others scattered along the East Coast. The international travelers' group of TeleSessions is holding its weekly talkathon-on the telephone...
...came here to kick the hell out of you," a 17-year-old black youth informed conservative Cartoonist Al Capp during a taping session on Public Television's new teen-age talkathon, "The Show." That remark kicked off a sizzling one-hour discussion of the generation gap, with 25 youngsters v. Capp. "You're a creep," one youngster stated during the talk session. "And you're nothing but vermin," Capp retorted. When it was all over, the cartoonist reCapped the confrontation by telling the kids: "I created all of you 20 years ago in my comic strips...
While Edmund Muskie sat with Hubert Humphrey in a pre-election TV talkathon from Los Angeles, Richard Nixon conducted his own four-hour program without the help of his running mate. To make sure that Agnew did not feel slighted, however, Nixon was almost comically extravagant in his praise. The Marylander, said Nixon, "is a man with brains. He's a man of very great courage. He doesn't wilt under fire." Meanwhile, Agnew campaigned in Virginia, then flew home to Maryland, where he relaxed on Election Day on the golf course, and gave a party in Government House...