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...rebel dead, but was unable to break the siege. At Gungu, another government outfit mowed down 100 guerrillas who staged a suicide charge with bows and arrows, spears and pangas. But the troops were cut off when rebels dug trenches across the local airstrip. Hardly had the commandos ar rived at Kikwit when one of their top officers, Army Chief of Staff Lieut...
...December 1961, King joined a mass protest demonstration in Albany, Ga., was arrested, and dramatically declared that he would stay in jail until Albany consented to desegregate its public facilities. But just two days after his ar rest, King came out on bail. The Alba ny movement collapsed, and King was bitterly criticized for helping to kill...
...hard words to say about one another, and ever since, relations between them have been cool. But when the two ex-Presidents met in Washington for John F. Kennedy's funeral, old angers did not seem to matter so much. Eisenhower invited H.S.T. to ride with him to Ar lington, and after the burial Harry had Ike and Mamie in to Blair House for coffee and sandwiches. Quietly the two men talked of the problems and perils of the presidency. After half an hour, they parted and an aide recalled: "You could see the warmth in their eyes. They...
...master of cajolery and charm, and a bulging pocket of ambition. He descends from a long line of Viennese-school conductors (Gustav Mahler, Felix Weingartner and Bruno Wal ter), and in his singing, legato style, he is one of the world's most admired conductors. His ar rival in San Francisco brought the city to a pitch of enthusiasm it had not felt for years...
...First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." Required prayers or Bible readings in public schools, the court held, amount to an "establishment." Since the schools concerned in the cases were not operated by the Federal Government, the decisions involved the old constitutional ar gument of how far the Bill of Rights, which originally applied only to federal actions, carries over to the states. It was on this battle-scarred question that the professors in Chicago took issue with the court...