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...results were spectacular: in a convention where extremism was the bitterest of issues, the hot-eyed polemics of the Scranton-inspired letter infuriated scores of delegates, ended for good any possibility of conciliation between the rival camps. From that moment on, the Goldwater forces ruled the convention with a fist of steel-and refused to give the opposition even the slightest quarter...
...anarchy, chaos and destruction." And in Charleston, Columbia, Florence and Greenville, S.C., integration proceeded without major trouble. In Greenville, a young Negro was sipping tea in the Jack Tar Poinsett Hotel dining room when South Carolina's Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond, one of the rights bill's bitterest foes, walked in. Apparently unaware of the Negro's presence, Thurmond sat down in another part of the room and quietly ate breakfast...
Edward Albee at his bitterest is not necessarily Albee at his best. But the Theatre Company of Boston's present production of "The American Dream" is good theatre indeed...
Mother Bell's Designs. Climaxing one of the bitterest business battles in recent history, the Federal Communications Commission turned down A.T. & T.'s request for permission to transmit printed as well as spoken communications through its transatlantic cables, which are capable of carrying both. The combined service would have given a huge sales advantage to A.T. & T., since many companies now want combination telephone-teletype hookups in order to discuss deals, plans or formulas by phone, then record them in print...
Pitchfork Charge. TIME Correspondent Robert Ball watched the fighting from a nearby hillside, then entered the village to see the grisly results. His report: "The bitterest fighting was at the western edge of the village, where the attacking Greeks had the cover of gnarled olive trees. In one mud-brick hut, where nine Turks had taken refuge, a window was blasted by a bazooka-type rocket, and the second floor literally sieved with bullet holes. In desperation, one Turkish shepherd tried to flee to the riverbed, but was cut down a few feet from the door. Another grabbed a pitchfork...