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...reception at a friend's home, the pictures and wire stories raced across the country to land on front pages nearly everywhere. Family matter or no, the wedding was social history rather than society-page fare. Dean Rusk, Secretary of State of the U.S., native of Cherokee County, Ga., and grandson of two Confederate soldiers, had given his only daughter's hand to a Negro...
...stylized symbol atop each ticket was the first and last eye-stop for many voters. In the hamlet of Dieu Ga, ten miles outside Saigon, a mother with babe on hip voted for the rice-stalk symbol of Ha Thuc Ky because, she said, she "liked rice very much." An old woman chose Dzu's white-dove ticket thinking it was a chicken. Dzu used the dove symbol to dramatize his peace platform, but in fact only highly educated Vietnamese were likely to have made the connection: the dove as an emblem of peace is a notion largely unfamiliar...
Shortly before, he picked up the Valdosta (Ga.) Times. This brings his world wide total to 160 papers, of which nearly 50 are in the U.S. - the largest number ever owned by a noncitizen and the largest number currently owned by any U.S. publisher...
...Circuit, a gang-busting state prosecutor elected in 1964 who personally led police on innumerable raids against gambling racketeers, auto thieves and bootleggers, all of whom flourish in his rural district; of injuries from at least six sticks of dynamite wired to his car's ignition; in Jefferson, Ga...
...baffling to understand why such supporters of the Vietnam war as Senators Russell (D-Ga.), Thurmond (R-S.C.), Stennis (D-Miss.), and Byrd (D-Va.) were so outraged by the intervention. Maybe it is because they are southern whites, and Mobutu represents black African nationalism. Russell deplored entering "in local wars where we have no moral commitment to intervene." He is upset by the use of three U.S. planes there and at the same time calmly approves the expenditure of billions in Vietnam. It is amazing logic...