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...bullet holes...
...shiny new hangar near Barranquilla, Colombia, a team of Soviet technicians has been assembling a plane that looks like a small bullet with wings. The stubby little jet, known as the "Codling" to NATO plane spotters and as YAK-40 to its builders, is the leading edge of a Soviet thrust into Western aviation markets. The YAKs are coming...
...tour. Eugene McCarthy read a poem against the war in Viet Nam. He was joined by more professional American poets, including James Dickey and Richard Wilbur. The Bijou Singers emitted a chorus of eerie wails, echoing such Yevtushenko lines as: "The stars in your flag, America, are bullet holes." The climax of the spectacle came, however, when Yevtushenko read Bombs for Balalaikas, composed overnight in protest against the bombing of Impresario Sol Hurok's office earlier in the week. Threats of a similar bombing of Yevtushenko's reading had already sent police scurrying to search the Forum...
...DePriest, seeking a third term in Congress, was defeated by a black Republican turned Democrat, Arthur W. Mitchell. The defeat marked the end of DePriest's political career. The year before Mayor Cermak had been assassinated in Florida by a bullet aimed at President Roosevelt, and Cermak was succeeded by Edward J. Kelly. As Mayor, Kelly made an even more intensive effort than Big Bill Thompson had to woo Chicago's ever-increasing black vote. Reading the handwriting on the wall, William Dawson, who after DePriest's defeat was the leading black Republican in the city, switched parties...
...bullet was later removed from the upper left portion of his chest...