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...September, one month after the bodies of three civil rights workers were found hidden beneath an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Miss., a Justice Department lawyer went before a federal grand jury to seek indictments against several suspects. Instead, the jury indicted five Mississippians-among them Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence Rainey and Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price -not for involvement in the triple murder but for violation of the civil rights of local Negroes. Whatever evidence the Justice Department offered in connection with the murder of the civil rights workers was apparently insufficient to convince the jury. The Justice Department lost...
Along with the Aswan Dam and new industry, President Nasser's ten-year development plan has given Egyptians a bigger appetite. Since the plan was started in 1960, it has added 1,000,000 workers to the country's payrolls, increased both total national income and production by about 30%. It has thus given millions of Egyptians the wherewithal to improve their meager diets, and that fact has created a problem that the planners did not anticipate: an acute food shortage...
...local councils, withdrew from Saigon to Hué, the true spiritual center of Vietnamese Buddhism, where a thousand ceremonies go on in a hundred temples and the sun is obscured by the smoke of millions of burning joss sticks. Here Tri lives in a spare cell in the Tu Dam pagoda, receives crowds of awed visitors, plays chess, and plots his moves against the government...
...Wild King dom. Last Sunday's "Cattail Country" also had Perkins skimming around the lake in an airboat helping Government conservationists on a duck-banding roundup; on the same show Assistant Jim Fowler was in the Grand Tetons watching a beaver repair a broken dam and following a wet mink on a muskrat hunt...
...eight productive years as Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge (he promoted arbitration rather than litigation in trade disputes, achieved standardization of some 3,000 industrial products, championed modernization of railroads and such huge river-control projects as Hoover Dam), Hoover repeatedly warned against "the rising boom and orgy of speculation." He complained that loose monetary policies of the Federal Reserve Board would lead to an "inevitable collapse which will bring the greatest calamities upon our farmers, our workers and legitimate business." But amid Coolidge prosperity, Hoover was denounced as "a crapehanger...