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Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa would make a great passing combination-if insults and accusations were footballs. Last week it was Jimmy's turn to toss: free after standing federal trial in Nashville, Tenn., Hoffa charged that Bobby had tried to tell Nashville Banner Publisher James G. Stahlman what the paper "should or should not print" about the trial. Moreover, he said, he could provide a transcript of a telephone conversation in which Bobby pressured Stahlman...
...between the files. In the audience, faces contorted as mothers and wives, fathers and brothers saw their loved ones. Cubans are a passionate people-passionate in their hopes and their hungers, in their politics, their patriotism and their personal relationships. They stood tensely at attention for The Star-Spangled Banner -and then came delirium, as prisoners and families rushed together in a frenzy of love. One elderly woman said it for all. "See," she cried as she clung to a young man. "He is my son. He is my son, and I am embracing and kissing...
...this inspiration that motivated Simón Bolivar and José de San Martin in freeing the states of South America from the dead hand of colonial Spain, forged modern Germany out of a score of principalities, unified fragmented Italy with Cavour's leadership. Under this glorious banner, Irishmen and Poles and Czechs fought and died to achieve their nationhood. Its spirit was reflected in the name of the Irish revolutionary society Sinn Fein (We Ourselves...
Baldwin emphasized the relation beteen the Negro and white apprehension of the world. Recalling that "I choked on the words of the 'Star Spangled Banner'" he talked about the difference between the America a white sees and America as perceived by a Negro...
Although most persons in the stands were primarily concerned with the battle being fought on the field, talk of Cuba and the international crisis was heard everywhere. There was a special fervor in the crowd when the "Star Spangled Banner" was sung...