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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They were wrong. Driving toward the Jan. 11th runoff election, McKeithen, 45, a lawyer-farmer from the small town of Columbia, fell back on the Southern office seeker's tried-and-true technique for getting votes: he ran on the race issue. Although he had al ways before been considered a moderate on race, he now charged that Morrison had made a "deal" with the N.A.A.C.P. for the Negro vote. "Without question," he cried of the first primary, "98% of the colored vote went to Mr. Morrison." To a New Orleans rally he declared: "The only things that increased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elections: The Tried-&-True Technique | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

...total ∙ U.S. nuclear force and the multiple-teaming of strategic objectives by "cross-targeting," SAC Commander Thomas Power says, he is certain that 90% of the targets would get plastered by U.S. missiles. The mix of which Power talks includes 554 ICBMs, 176 submarine-launched Polaris Al and A2 solid-fueled missiles (90% reliable in tests), 630 B-52 bombers and 720 B-47s. In "cross-targeting," as many as six missiles may be trained on a single target, with a wave of "follow-on" bombers ready to mop up if anything goes wrong. Says Air Force Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: The Missile Gap | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

Last October and November civil rights groups in Mississippi conducted one of their most ambitious efforts to date, when they ran Aaron Henry, president of the state NAACP organization, for governor. Chief organizer and fund-raiser of the massive effort was Al Lowenstein, a man with a long record of freedom-fighting...

Author: By Sanford J. Ungar, | Title: Allard Lowenstein | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

Friends have told Lowenstein to "stop throwing away his life on lost causes. Why not settle down and run for Congress or something?" But for Al Lowenstein "something" would be a poor substitute for what he is doing...

Author: By Sanford J. Ungar, | Title: Allard Lowenstein | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

Harvard will probably start Merie McClung (averaging 19.9 points per game). Bob Inman, Barry Williams, Leo Scully, and Al Bornheimer. Sensational sophomore Keith Sedlacek will no doubt see a lot of action. With his patented long jump shot, Sedlacek has sunk 49.4 per cent of his shots and provided the Crimson some much-needed backcourt scoring punch...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Quintet Sees Easy Foe In Winless Green Five | 1/15/1964 | See Source »

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