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...Maddox was waiting for them in the parking lot of his place, waving a snub-nosed pistol. "You ain't never gonna eat here!" he shouted, shoving against the car door as the Negroes started to get out. When the students persisted, Maddox and another white man grabbed ax handles from a stockpile Maddox had laid in for just such an occasion. "Git, git," Maddox ordered. The Negroes did, with a crowd of angry Maddox patrons at their heels. Among them was a small boy dragging a 3-ft. ax handle and squealing: "I'm gonna kill...
...rocky hills, the Nagas have fought a twelve-year guerrilla war and withstood air raids by Indian planes and ground attacks by about 40,000 Indian troops. Though they started out armed only with some old Japanese rifles and their traditional dao, a long knife shaped like a meat ax, the estimated 5,000 rebels now have relatively modern weapons, some captured from the Indians, but most supplied by India's subcontinental rival, Pakistan. Last week, with the Baptist Church serving as mediator, the Naga rebels agreed to lay down their daos for a month-long armistice...
...Passman had been backed by Missouri Democrat Clarence Cannon, chairman of the full Appropriations Committee. But Cannon died last May and was succeeded by Texas Democrat George Mahon. At the urging of Fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson, Mahon persuaded the subcommittee to turn down Passman's demands for meat-ax foreign-aid cuts...
Barebones Request. Johnson was jubilant, congratulated the House for a "wise and prudent action." Said he: "This is no time to be cutting a carefully drawn measure." Even so, it looked at first as if Congress might cut it to ribbons. Veteran Ax Wielder Otto Pass man, the Louisiana Democrat who heads the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, said that the President "would be very lucky to get $2.5 billion." Congress seemed so rebellious that some officials feared the aid package might eventually be trimmed to $2 billion...
Flanked by panels painted with false perspectives, other bits of bronze, chunks of pavement, ax-hewn and charred wood catch the eye. Some parts of the sculpture peep from behind doors; others curlicue underneath canopies. One piece, or "galaxy" as Kiesler calls them, is titled The Cup of Prometheus, and appropriately contains a burning smudge pot. To encourage people to contemplate the work, Kiesler cast two 85-lb. aluminum stools that are exactly placed in reference to larger parts. The problem is that Kiesler has had to borrow his most precious commodity-space-from a polygonal room in Wright...