By the time the House had flailed its way into the third day of debate over the Administration's civil-rights bill last week, it was like a big classroom of spirited boys with teacher out sick and vacation only a few days off. Good-naturedly, the Southern Democrats exchanged verbal spitballs with Northern Republicans and Democrats while both sides talked on for the sake of the record. Everybody knew that the Southern bloc had delayed the bill* so long that it would never get by the Senate this session. So the proceedings went forward in a spirit of good, dirty, cynical fun.
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