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Florida and federal authorities are taking no chances. The fly was reported first on April 14 by Orlo L. Prior of Miami, who found a maggoty grapefruit in his backyard. Not until April 22 was the discovery publicly announced, and by then the fly had made considerable progress. It has now moved northward into Palm Beach County, and has been reported from Alcoma, in the citrus belt...
...sharp rebuff in his own backyard, but with the Texas delegation bound by the unit rule and Johnson moderates outnumbering liberal delegates two to one, Lyndon was still the man in the Texas saddle, still one of the most potent Democrats in the pre-Chicago picture. What Frankie Randolph's election meant was that in his future practice of moderation, Lyndon Johnson will have a beady eye looking over his left (liberal) shoulder...
...Register was not the only paper that, prompted by the desegregation story, investigated discrimination in its own backyard. The New York Post devoted twelve articles to the subject; the New York Times ran four solid stories on Negroes in New York and other Northern cities; the Chicago Tribune presented a scholarly, ten-part series by Negro Reporter Roi Ottley; the Newark News ran a series which was the joint work of two staffers who play tennis together-Tennessee-born George Kentera, 33, and Luther Jackson, 31, a Virginia-bred Negro. The Los Angeles Mirror-News told its story...
...same dishes every day, fold the same clothes, dust the same bookcases and change the same diapers." A "Krauss hint" for an easier life: mothers in a neighborhood should pool their children so only one mother at a time need watch them. Another: tots should be parked in bigger backyard playpens and not be permitted to interrupt chores even when they start to howl. Said Bachelor Krauss expansively: let them howl. And would he have a try at playing housewife over again? Said he, wincing: "Not unless you can catch me and tie me down...
...Backyard Hoop. A veteran of professional baseball and basketball, Father Sime has always felt a drive to teach his son his own driving urge to excel in sports. As soon as young Dave could handle a basketball there was a backyard hoop. "When I was five," he recalls, "Dad had me out hitting baseballs. Dad always told me to run faster, throw harder, hit farther. He never has been completely satisfied...