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...Very Sorry." Next day the delegates fanned out across Capitol Hill to pin down their Congressmen on civil rights. Ohio's Republican Senator George Bender was ready to agree to everything, even the dispatch of U.S. troops to keep order in Mississippi. Virginia's segregationist Democratic Representative Howard W. Smith declined to see the delegates: "A waste of your time and mine." Most dramatic confrontation came when Mississippi's Gus Courts walked into the office of Missis sippi's James O. Eastland. Courts told the Senator how he had been shot, whereupon Eastland shook his head...
Lowell's John Havelock scored a pin in the third fall of yesterday's match, to qualify for the finals. He will grapple with John Lane of Adams for the 157 lb. title. The 147 lb. category has two finalists from Winthrop House, Mark Abramowicz and Ed Davidson; while Leverett's Bob Holmes and Kirkland's Reynold Golden are scheduled for the 137 lb. contest. Andrew Pearson and Tom Myers, from Adams and Kirkland, are the 123 lb. wrestlers...
...jangling summons of his telephone (in one normal day, recently, he received 94 incoming calls, not counting interoffice conversations). At 10:52 a.m., the precise moment when the President's press conference broke up, Leonard Wood Hall, chairman of the Republican National Committee, fastened a gold-colored Ike pin on his lapel and made a prediction. "This," he said earnestly, "is going to 'be one of the hardest campaigns we ever fought. Now that Ike has done what he has done, we're all going to have to come up to it by working harder than...
...small Jordanian plane rolled to a stop on the tarmac of Nicosia airfield on Britain's island of Cyprus, and from it wearily stepped a small, stooped, grey man in a rumpled brown pin-stripe suit. The man in mufti, scarcely able to hold back his tears, was Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb, 58, for more than a quarter of a century one of the most potent and famous figures of British imperial power in the Middle East. Last week, suddenly and savagely, the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan sacked and shipped off the desert proconsul who had made...
...Crimson came back strongly as Bob Gilmor wrestled his usual smooth match and easily defeated his opponent in the 167 lb. class. At 177, Casper Cronk, set the stage for Morrison's pin by beating his man on points...