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...unprecedented move, Pope Paul VI flies to Johnson City, Texas, to visit President Johnson at the LBJ ranch. To his evident enjoyment the entire Johnson family welcomes him to a barbecue with a chorus of "Deep in the Heart of Texas" sung in Latin. In New York, Richard Nixon holds a press conference to announce his selection of a staff of advisers "who will help me formulate plans to avoid becoming a candidate for public office...
Prime Minister Milton Apollo Obote came up with the most violent accusation. Calling the whites "snakes in our pot," he angrily quoted to Parliament some verses from a song he claimed was sung at the party...
Bananas on His Head. The five young Britons who threw the party denied that the song had been sung, claimed that their party was harmless tomfoolery. But despite their protestations, Uganda was in an ugly mood. The manager of the Uganda Argus, who had not even attended the party, was abducted by nine angry Africans and marched through Kampala's marketplace carrying a bunch of bananas on his head...
...sickly old man was coming home after five years of self-imposed exile over his Communist sympathies. Paul Robeson, 74, has not sung publicly in almost two years, has been living in a London nursing home, except for the last four months, when he was taken to East Berlin for what his far-leftist wife, Eslanda, described as "a medical examination." Now "he is to all intents and purposes retired," says Eslanda, who does practically all the talking. "He does not wish to see anyone or give any interviews. Nor does he wish to be photographed, because he has lost...
...Texas. Warning his lads not to "cheer this poor deluded woman," President William L. Prather begged them to remember that "the eyes of Texas are upon you." In barely two years, the resulting gag song (to I've Been Working on the Railroad) was sufficiently solemnized to be sung at Prather's funeral...