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...issue was not long in doubt. After a few days of nervous consultations, the Mapai central committee voted 149 to 96 to boot Lavon out of his job as secretary-general of Histadrut, the powerful labor federation that he had used as his base of power. Happily, Ben-Gurion turned his thoughts to a new Cabinet that would probably include most of the now chas tened politicians who had dared oppose him on Lavon. The outcome represented something less than judicial fairness to Lavon, who may now bolt the party and try to fight Ben-Gurion on the stump...
...that only three white students quit the campus because it was now integrated. Hard-core segregationists, mainly law students with an eye on state politics, were cowed by the FBI men. Some even stopped wailing about "the long arm of judicial tyranny grinding us under the heel of its boot." In contrast to its former timidity, the university sternly suspended 13 riot ringleaders. Moderates formed "Students for Constructive Action," nailed up golden rule notices: "If I were in the situation Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter are in, I think I'D WANT TO BE TREATED THE SAME AS OTHERS...
...Marines, and its producer is François Reichenbach, 38, who made a big New Wave splash last spring with his first full-length movie, the much criticized L'Amérique Insolite (generally translated "unusual"). For his latest effort, a stark study of the Parris Island, S.C., boot camp, Reichenbach last week was unanimously greeted as one of France's most poetic, powerful film makers...
...breakup of the Marilyn Monroe-Arthur Miller marriage: The man who wrote Death of a Salesman seemed simply to have had all he could take, not only of his marriage but of Hollywood to boot. See SHOW BUSINESS, Popsie & Poopsie...
...kick-off: If Yale kicks, end John Stocking will boot the now-famous Yale "squib-kick," an on-side kick that starts bouncing around crazy-like on the opposing team's 40 yard line. His kicks are usually off to the right in which case Crimson left end Bob Boyda will be fielding a lot of grounders today...