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...Fortas to be Chief Justice of the U.S. A formal vote to, close off a filibuster will not come until this week, but it is foredoomed. Fortas' opponents, led by Michigan Republican Robert Griffin, have considerably more than enough votes to block cloture and keep the talkathon going until the Administration gives...
...Priscilla Goodbody, the imaginary little lady with the big scissors who keeps Johnny Carson from turning too blue? See TELEVISION, Talkathon of Comment...
Battle of Talkathons. Much of TV's comment and controversy are heard on the day-and-night conversation shows, which seem to be trying to turn TV into a talkathon. They frantically compete with each other for big-name, talkers. Joey Bishop interviews Ronald Reagan, Carson brings on Ayn Rand, Merv Griffin chats with Bertrand Russell. One night, Dick Cavett has Norman Mailer as his guest, the next night he leads a spirited discussion between James Bald win and Yale Philosopher Paul Weiss...
...Spoiler? Last week, after a 33-day filibuster and three abortive attempts to turn off the talkathon by a two-thirds majority vote, Dirksen and the liberals finally succeeded in invoking cloture, though without a single vote to spare. With members now restricted to one hour's speaking, the Senate took up 43 separate amendments to the bill, whose open-housing clause had been tacked onto the House version by Minnesota's Walter Mondale...
...tame talkathon is directed against a civil rights bill that would make it a federal crime to commit violence-including murder-against members of racial and religious minorities trying to exercise their civil rights. The bill, already approved by the House, was the Senate's "pending business" when the current session opened. With teams of Southern Senators sharing the speaking, rarely heard by more than one or two colleagues, the bill is still pending...