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...State of Mind." The burden of running a global army rests on the cool, thoughtful officer who occupies Room 3-E-668 in the Pentagon. General Harold Keith Johnson, 53, the 24th U.S. Army Chief of Staff-and the youngest to be appointed since Douglas Mac-Arthur-is a team man of austere, probing intelligence in the managerial mold of McNamara's Pentagon. "Like McNamara," says a Defense Department aide, "Johnson is a computer. But he is a friendly computer...
...single run. Sure, the Dodgers' pitching is great, but they can't pitch shutouts every day, and worse pitchers than Camilo Pascual have shut out the Dodgers this year. Maybe they go 23 innings in a scoreless tie; the Twins are the best to win in the 24th. You know...
There he stood, that moaning old Yank, Elvis Presley, 30, firmly in the No. 1 spot on London's Hit Parade with what the trade calls a ."religiose"-Crying in the Chapel. And were the Beatles crying any more than usual down there in 24th place with Ticket to Ride? No, no, no. For when the Queen's annual birthday honors list came out, there they were, among the 1,800 names: Ringo Starr, 24, John Lennon, 24, Paul McCartney, 22, and George Harrison, 22, all appointed members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, thus...
...Attorney General will challenge the constitutionality of poll taxes levied in state and local elections in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Virginia (the 24th Amendment bars poll taxes in federal elections). At the same time, the bill declares that such taxes amount to an infringement on the right to vote by discriminating against the poor, and particularly Negroes...
Teddy v. Temptation. Under the 24th, and latest, amendment to the U.S. Constitution, poll taxes are prohibited in elections for federal offices. However, poll taxes in state and local elections are still permitted, and four states -Alabama, Texas, Virginia and Mississippi-now have such poll taxes. Mississippi's poll tax is $2 a year, the others levy $1.50. What would prevent a state from rushing through a measure establishing a poll tax of, say, $15? To forestall that temptation, Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Teddy Kennedy tacked onto the voting bill yet another amendment, outlawing poll taxes altogether in elections...