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...Governor John McKeithen, who announced that he will not back Humphrey, thus in effect ceding his state to Wallace. McCarthy himself remained silent. Said a Democrat who had earlier opposed the Vice President, but is now aiding him: "Everything in life boils down to one question-which is the lesser of evils...
...summer's bloodiest confrontation occurred in Cleveland, where an ambush of police by black extremists led to an uprising that took eleven lives. Since then, groups of policemen have been wounded by Negro guerrillas in Seattle and Peoria, Ill., and lesser sniping skirmishes have been reported in a dozen other cities. But this has apparently been the work of a handful of fanatics, and they have failed to rally much of a following. While the extremists speak loudly, and often gain the headlines, they do not come near to representing the peaceful and constructive majority of the rapidly changing...
...Golden Age of subversion" is over, says Editor William F. Buckley Jr., and he almost seems to regret it. Gone are traitors of the magnitude of Alger Hiss, witnesses of the eloquence of Whittaker Chambers. Still, today's radical resurgence, thinks Buckley, has created a swarm of lesser subversives who bear close watching. To keep an eye on them, he has started a four-page newsletter, Combat, to be published twice a month...
What needs to be done in Kansas can be done, as California and Colorado and, to a lesser extent, Massachusetts and Illinois have shown. In California, psychiatric aides have been upgraded to the rank of technicians, starting at $400 a month with an $80 raise at the end of a year. After in-service education, they can advance to positions of recognized responsibility, with appropriate pay raises to a top of $1,048 a month. Several of the Topeka State aides' minor grievances can be adjusted by simple administrative action, if Dr. Bay and other officials are willing. Salaries...
...solitary-confinement cells (which are converted shipping containers). As the wooden buildings broke into flames, 100 M.P.s marched into the stockade with night sticks and tear gas. By the time the gas cleared, one prisoner was dead, his skull crushed, 23 were hospitalized, and 35 more needed treatment for lesser wounds. In addition, five guards, including the garrison commander, were in the hospital...