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...state handily in an election held now. Even North Carolina's Terry Sanford, a strong Kennedy supporter, sadly admitted that "certainly President Kennedy isn't as popular in North Carolina as he was six months ago." Sanford figured he knew the reason for the President's slip in the South-Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Said Sanford: "We had it knocked before this civil rights business. If he would fire Bobby tomorrow, we'd have it licked again...
...Course of Events. After nine years of absolute power, the Ngo family had taken a considerable risk in letting so much authority slip from its hands under the martial law proclamation. Taking over the functioning of all government ministries, the army for the first time has a viable power structure of its own. It may well stay loyal as long as Diem remains in the presidential palace, but Nhu is vastly unpopular with most of the military commanders except Tung. The army immediately tried to dissociate itself from the Buddhist crackdown. All official bulletins from the army-controlled government information...
Comes Thursday evening in Brasilia, barring the gravest of national emergencies, the city empties as if somebody had pulled a plug. Congressmen slip out of the chamber, pick up their tickets at handy airline booths right in the lobby of the Congress building, and rush to catch the 7:30 Electra...
...ciphers who owned no books. His mother smothered him in a cocoon of maternal affection; his father, an epileptic, mainly embarrassed the boy. But there was Grandpa, who took him to plays at the German Theater in Irving Place at an early age, and Uncle Will, who offered to slip him the money for his initial excursion into...
...avoid these entirely. You may compare this to the winning of a pet dog. There is no point in trying to match nails and teeth, but it is a relatively simple matter to turn him on his back and tickle his tummy. It is then easy to slip a collar...