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...Tons Empty. Sihanouk, who had called for the conference in the first place in order to guarantee his borders against "encroachments" by Thailand and South Viet Nam, now viewed the talks as a bit of international skulduggery in which his country would be used as "bait" for a fishing expedition by the big fellows. He wasn't biting. The sudden shift came as no surprise, since Snookie had just returned from Indonesia, where he ran into Red Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. Peking itself has no desire to enter into negotiations over Viet Nam at the moment, as Chou himself...
...rise to the bait. And in Washington, Katzenbach heard Doar's voice: "King is walking back this way. He's asking the marchers to turn back." Katzenbach called the White House and said: "King has turned around." Katzenbach next talked to LeRoy Collins in Selma and phoned the White House again. "It looks very good," he said with obvious relief. "More like the March on Washington than anything. They're going back to the church. John Doar feels this will take away a lot of the bad taste of the brutality on Sunday. It looks...
...Martin Luther King Jr. deliberately set out to get himself and his followers arrested. He succeedd spectacularly, spending four days in jail himself and getting nearly 3,500 others booked by Alabama's remarkably stupid law enforcement officials, who fell hook, line and sinker for his bait. Toward week's end, King was accurately able to state in a national fund-raising "Letter from a Selma, Ala., Jail" newspaper advertisement that "there are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls...
...McDonald, deeply tanned from a recent inspection trip to a Southern installation. Last to arrive was the Marine Corps' Greene. "Well," he said, "as long as we are going to be in here ten years, we might as well not hurry." Chairman Wheeler rose to the bait. "Ten years?" he asked. "Why ten years?" The Army's Johnson ruefully explained that Greene was "pulling my leg"; only a few days before, Johnson had been quoted in the newspapers as having said that the U.S. might have to stay in South Viet Nam for another ten years. "Who trapped...
...days are over when garden catalogues were synonyms for sucker bait. Thanks to such groups as All-America Selections, which tests the new varieties, the big companies now make a painstaking effort to describe their wares honestly, and to illustrate them in true-to-life colors, along with a modicum of imagination-whetting blarney...