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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Atlanta." Changing downtown from a closed to an open car, Pat and Dick suddenly found themselves on a ten-block parade route that was choked with 150,000 people. For the second time, the Nixons were bombarded with confetti, pulled and pawed by enthusiastic Atlantans, who broke past Secret Service men to reach for a hand shake...
Nixon is also helped by the fact that no sizable states'-rights third-party move has developed so far in the South. In past campaigns, Southerners mad at their party voted the third ticket, e.g., in 1948 when the Dixiecrats took 39 Southern electoral votes from Harry Truman (see map). This time, protest votes will likely go Republican...
Fears of Disarmament. Captain of this legal rear guard is a militant A.B.A. past-president, Frank Holman. 74, of Seattle, author and bankroller of a 32-page pro-Connally pamphlet that is being circulated to leaders of the 99,400-member association as well as to women's clubs, veterans' groups and editors around the nation. Dismissing the proponents of repeal as "internationalists" and "world government enthusiasts," Holman argues that "the Connally Reservation is necessary to protect the U.S. against a program of supernational supervision of its citizens," imposed by alien jurists who could make up rules...
Leader of the repeal forces is hardworking Charles Rhyne, 48, past president of the A.B.A. (TIME Cover, May 5, 1958), and chairman of the A.B.A.'s Special Committee on World Peace Through Law. His case rests on one powerful point: if the world is to avoid war it must turn, step by step, toward the rule of law which promises orderly settlement of disputes through the administration of international justice. Under the terms...
...tiny topsail schooner Pickle leaked and bucked her way past Spanish Finisterre, through Biscay's Bay, past French Finistere, and English Land's End, to Falmouth. The "telegraph" (semaphore) to London was unfinished. So Pickle's skipper, Lieut. John Richards Lapenotiere, jounced for 37 hours in a post chaise to Whitehall. It was 16 days after the fleet's guns fell silent that Lapenotiere rode through Admiralty Arch, strode into the secretary's office and announced baldly: "Sir, we have gained a great victory, but we have lost Lord Nelson...