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Georgia's Richard Russell rose in the crowded Senate chamber last week and surveyed his club with fatherly approval. The Senate, drawled Russell, is "a bulwark against precipitate action inspired by the unthinking passions of a great mob." The "great mob" in this case included the Kennedy Administration, the Senate leadership of both parties, the Civil Rights Commission and most U.S. Senators. They wanted to destroy the literacy test, the South's most effective device for denying the vote to Negroes. And Russell's tightly disciplined team of filibustering Southern Democrats held the bulwark with ease...
...Limoeiro (pop. 30,000) last week, reported TIME Correspondent John Blashill, a mob of 1,000 men, women and children-some armed with shotguns and hoes-shouted angrily for "Food! Food!" Only by collecting donations from alarmed merchants did the local sheriff avert a battle. In five other towns, stores were sacked; in a sixth, a gun battle left one dead and two wounded. Officials of Pernambuco state belatedly impounded what food was left (speculators had bought up most of the crop, were selling it at markups of 500% to 1,000%). The federal government declared an emergency throughout...
...Money & Mobs. The impression of most Europeans who have traveled before in the U.S. is that the figures in the ads are "impossible." Said one Briton: "If you want to stay in the sort of place most people like staying in on holiday, have the sort of meals most people like to have in conditions that make meals a pleasure, three weeks' holiday in America would cost just about double what the ads say." Says Paris' Figaro: "The U.S. risks having a problem this summer in a mob of tourists who believe what they read. Despite claims, there...
...criminals the only ones who prey on the slums. In Santiago, in a recent election for an internal "command," an entire slum of 35,000 inhabitants fell under the control of Communists. In Caracas, Reds have infiltrated the shanty towns through "neighborhood improvement committees," and the notorious "Caracas mob" sweeping down from the hills is a major problem...
...rather more unity for all," insisted Hoy, official organ of the Communist Party. Yet only a unity of necessity joins Castro's wild-eyed impulsive revolutionaries and the party's longtime regulars. And it is doubtful that any lasting meeting of minds can come between the mob-rousing and vain Fidel and the shadowy, heavy-set mulatto who heads Cuba's Communist Party and commands its maneuvers...