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...what is normal? Last week Clifford said he was "not aware of any increase in infiltration" since Johnson's March 31 order to curtail the bombing. But Dean Rusk, testifying on the foreign-aid bill before a House committee, said infiltration had increased. Indeed, some intelligence sources claim that 30,000 infiltrators poured into the South in April alone?a 2½-fold increase over the normal rate?and that their weapons were new, excellent and plentiful...
...most of his press conference last week, the President seemed unwontedly subdued, as if he had prepared himself with one Miltown too many. Then a newsman asked him about that vexed, vexatious tax bill, and Lyndon Johnson all at once was his old self again. For eight gesticulatory minutes-more than twice the time he devoted to the subject of peace talks-he laced into Capitol Hill economizers and urged Congressmen to "stand up like men" and vote, to "bite the bullet" no matter how much it hurt. Oddly enough, until he spoke, they had seemed ready to do just...
Terry Oxford climaxed his undefeated season with an exhausting 8-6, 2-6, 6-2 win over Yale's Bill Keeton at the number five spot. It was typical Oxford triumph, as the Harvard junior wore his opponent down and then smashed him in the third...
Widespred speculation that the marchers would attempt to erect their shantytown on the Mall in front of the Capitol has preoccupied many Washington officials this week. Congressman William C. Kramer (R-Fla.), the author of the anti-riot provision of the 1968 Civil Rights Act, is pushing a bill to bar the marchers from erecting their shacks anywhere near the complex of federal buildings surrounding the Mail...
...This bill will probably be unnecessary in keeping the marchers away from the Mall, since the Department of the Interior must grant them a permit before they can camp on federal property, and now it appears that this permit may not be granted...