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...support of the "drug interests" who, Estes implies, are out to even the score for the Kefauver Senate investigation of drug prices. Knowing his vulnerability on civil rights, the Keef prudently stayed away from the Los Angeles Democratic Convention, surmising that he might be tagged with partial responsibility for the all-out civil rights plank. Yet, though he was fighting for his political life in the same dogged fashion that he fought for the presidential nomination in 1952, and the vice presidential nod in 1956, Kefauver held fast to his principles...
...toward their military alliance with the U.S. nonetheless remains an unenthusiastic "yamu wo enai [it can't be helped]"-which lends strength to the vocal minority which openly prefers neutralism or "neutralism leaning toward China." To forestall the possibility that this situation might ultimately explode in a flash of all-out hostility to the U.S., Ambassador MacArthur soon fell in with Kishi's insistence that the time had come for American concessions designed to convert the Japanese public from yamu wo enai to a relationship of "mutual trust" with...
...Gaulle had hoped to combat the rising cost of living by an all-out overhaul of France's antiquated food distribution system, under which nearly every vegetable or farm animal produced in France must be shipped to Paris' Les Halles market for sale or reshipment to the provinces. But the reform has been put off because of the cost of prosecuting the Algerian war. Last week embattled artichoke growers at St.-Pol-de-Leon dumped 800 tons of artichokes into a quarry and doused them with diesel oil in protest at the fall of the farm price...
Sultans of Swat. In Istanbul, Turkey, during an all-out effort to rid the city of flies, the Municipal Health Department directed its entire staff to spend their lunch hour killing the insects, required each to turn in a casualty report...
...which seemed insufficient protection for the jam he was in. No one knew for sure what his gamma-eyed creditors would do to his empire. But everyone in Hollywood agreed that it would be a shame indeed if anything put an end to those lovely parties in that all-out house...