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...madden ingly long time to move from drafting board to concrete reality. Not this bill. When President Johnson signed it Aug. 6, he promised to enforce it with "dis patch," and Katzenbach went at the job with crackling alacrity. Dead-End Counties. Under the law's "automatic trigger" formula, the Gov ernment is empowered to send federal examiners into Alabama, Alaska, Geor gia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Caro lina and Virginia, plus 26 North Caro lina counties and Arizona's Apache County, where literacy tests have been in use and where less than 50% of the voting-age population...
...four in Alabama, three in Louisiana, two in Mississippi-Katzenbach said, the percentage of eligible white citizens on the voting rolls ranges from 65% to 100% -and "in some cases to more than 100% ." The percentage of Negroes registered ranges from 2% to 10% Then Katzenbach gently squeezed the trigger. Federal examiners, all of them Southerners who were employed by the U.S. Civil Service Commission, were sent into each designated county to open offices and begin processing applicants. Their instructions were clear and un mistakable: Register all Negroes except convicted felons or those who fail to meet age or residence...
...tool, which will be tested on later Gemini flights, is designed to eliminate such reaction almost entirely. The spaceman's wrench, 10½ in. long, 9 in. high and 5 in. wide across the motor housing, has a built-in reaction absorber. When the astronaut presses the trigger, the motor near the handle compresses a spring with a brief quick twist. As the spring expands, it turns the hollow cylinder that surrounds it. Compression and release of the spring occur, alternately, 1,800 times a second. The turning force of the cylindrical mass is what turns the operating...
...Contradict Myself." Next step for the bill is a Senate-House conference, where several discrepancies must be ironed out. In the final moments of debate, the House knocked out two provisions already in the Senate bill. One would have permitted individual counties in states affected by the automatic trigger to free themselves of federal scrutiny by proving that more than 50% of their voting-age Negroes were registered. Another would have permitted some 330,000 Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans in New York to vote, even though they did not know English, by showing proof of a sixth-grade education...
...role had an even greater dignity than the record he left behind, for he was a thoughtful man who grappled with the overwhelming issues of this most overwhelming of times. There are epitaphs more ignoble that that pinned upon him by his enemies: that in the age of the trigger-happy and the tough-minded, in the age of Hiroshima and of Cuba, he thought about the issues his people faced, and hesitated, unwilling to make up his mind...