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...committeemen would say so-at first. Then Birch Publicist John Rousselot crowed in San Marino, Calif., that it was "wise of the Republican Party to make clear that it doesn't seem to be influenced by extremist groups, such as the Communist Party or the Ku Klux Klan." At which, Wisconsin Representative Melvin Laird told his colleagues: "Let's quit monkeying around. No more hedging, damn it. The answer is yes." And so, by the end of the day, committee members were once again reading out the Birchers...
...renovate Los Angeles' downtown plaza stalled for three years, the magazine Los Angeles got it going again with an all-out assault on city and state agencies that were holding it up. Even Atlanta, which remains a Chamber of Commerce publication, has run pieces debunking the Ku Klux Klan and questioning the city's cultural pretensions...
Died. Grady Mars, 41, Grand Klaliff (vice president) of the North Carolina Klan, who, according to his wife, had been despondent ever since he took the Fifth Amendment last October to avoid telling the House Un-American Activities Committee what he had done with $328 missing and unaccounted for from a Klan legal-defense fund; by his own hand f(.38-cal. pistol); in Granite Quarry...
...sound like a gang of mute hoodlums, and Charles Sims like the czar of the underworld, it shouldn't. Bogalusa is a strange town, a mean town; the niceties of non-violence seem inappropriate in a place where half the cars fly rebel flags and the radio station announces Klan rallies as though they were church picnics...
...organization, and the discipline of the organization is a credit to Sims. He discourages in private the bellicose attitude that he projects in public. His Deacons are merely a deterrent force to scare off racists who are hunting for trouble. Sim's aim is simply to keep the Klan out of Negro neighborhoods, and in this he succeeds. He has created a Cold War atmosphere in Bogalusa. No gunfights, no midnight raids, only sitting and waiting...