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What pleased Billy most about his nightly Earl's Court rallies was the high attendance of young people, "whom you could see coming, with their long hair and miniskirts." He estimated that 70% of his listeners were under 25. Equally encouraging to the evangelist was his discovery that public indifference to England's churches did not mean a revolt "against God, or against religion, the Bible, or Christ." England, Billy declared, has a "widespread interest in religion," and may be on the verge of a "moral and spiritual revival...
With a top of the morning to you, Mrs. Guv'nor, Chief Justice Earl Warren, 75, greeted Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller, 40, and Nelson Jr., 2, as they crossed paths in London's Grosvenor Square. Warren was on the first leg of a trip to Israel to attend the dedication of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Forest near Jerusalem. Happy was keeping busy sightseeing with Nelson Jr. and her brood of four by her first marriage, while she waited for the New York legislature to adjourn so Daddy could join them all on a month-long European vacation...
...such nicety troubled Baltimore's Police Commissioner Bernard J. Schmidt (since resigned under fire), who was understandably anxious to catch Earl and Sam Veney, the Negro brothers who killed one policeman and gravely wounded another while robbing a liquor store on Christmas Eve, 1964. Schmidt set out to catch the Veneys with a flying squad of 50 to 60 men armed with submachine guns, tear gas and bulletproof vests. Acting almost entirely on anonymous tips, which they never verified, the squad spent 19 days in round-the-clock raids of more than 300 houses in Negro neighborhoods. They...
...wouldn't be too self-conscious about modern literature. I didn't want to use all my energies explaining dramatic techniques rather than doing them." He switched to Anglo-Saxon thesis work after abandoning an 18th Century project. "I was supposed to edit the papers of an 18th Century Earl who was a friend of Swift and Pope. But they usually consisted of 'I dined with Mr. Pope and Dean Swift last night. I was in my usual good form.' Absolutely nothing about Swift...
...behalf of Dissenters Earl Warren, William Brennan and Abe Fortas, Justice William O. Douglas argued that the defendants in the Greenwood case should also have been allowed removal. The federal courts can and do eventually overturn unjust state decisions, he conceded, but such ultimate vindication, he added wryly, comes only if defendants "persevere, live long enough, and have the patience and the funds to carry their cases for some years through the state courts to this court...