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FICTION 1. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (1)* √ 2. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (2) √ 3. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (3) √ 4. A Burnt-Out Case, Greene (4) 5. Advise and Consent, Drury (6) 6. Hawaii, Michener (8) √ 7. Midcentury, Dos Passes (5) √ 8. Winnie Hie Pu, Milne (7) 9. A Journey to Matecumbe, Taylor 10. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins...
With or without Alabama's consent, Attorney General Kennedy had all the authority he needed to send FBI agents, marshals, or even Army troops to the troubled state. That authority rested in Section 333 of the Armed Forces Code-which derived from an 1871 Insurrection Act that was designed as a legal antidote against Ku Klux Klan rampaging. Section 333 authorizes the President to use "any means" to suppress "insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination or conspiracy" if state officials are unable or unwilling to offer citizens the protection of the law. The section has been used only three times...
...Macmillan and France's De Gaulle. Last week, just before President Kennedy flew off to Canada for a state visit, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov appeared at the White House with a letter reaffirming Khrushchev's interest in a meeting. Kennedy gave his consent...
...Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (1)* √ 2. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (3) 3. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (2) √ 4. A Burnt-Out Case, Greene (4) 5. Advise and Consent, Drury (9) √6. Midcentury, Dos Passos (5) √7. Winnie Ille Pu, Milne (6) 8. China Court, Godden (8) 9. Hawaii, Michener (7) √10. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward NONFICTION √ 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1) √2. The New English Bible (3) √3. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (2) 4. My Thirty Years Backstairs...
...University is still trying to buy the Cambridge MTA yards as the site for a badly needed Tenth House. But despite generous purchase prices and offers to use part of the land for taxable ventures, Massachusetts Hall has been unable to obtain State consent to buy the property...