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...report, written when Chessman was 18, noted that his "boastfulness is a compensation for underlying feelings of insecurity and inadequacy." Chessman was brought up in the Glendale section of Los Angeles. His father was a bitter, disappointed ineffectual who drifted from one job to another (carpenter, poultry butcher, Venetian-blind installer, yardman), and the precarious family income was battered by heavy medical expenses. Chessman's mother was injured in an auto accident when he was nine, for the rest of her life was a chaired invalid, paralyzed from the waist down. And her son Carol (the Caryl spelling...
...addition of hypocrisy. The son of a Russian-Polish immigrant who gave up a profitable fur trade in the U.S. Midwest to try his luck in the South African diamond rush, husky young Roland Welensky left school at 14 and wandered all over Africa, taking jobs as clerk, butcher and baker, then settled in his native Rhodesia. His success as a union organizer led on to politics...
...African Butcher." Only France seemed to get pleasure out of its big bang. Japan and Morocco prepared formal protests. From Nasser's United Arab Republic came the cry: "The government which has acted as a butcher in Algeria is now trying to act as a butcher for all Africa." Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of the West African state of Ghana dramatically ordered the freezing of French assets (estimated at $14 million) until possible effects of the explosion on the Ghanaian population are known. Nigeria found it necessary to post security guards around the French embassy...
Stepping up the attack, Castro's newspaper, Revolución, described Vice President Nixon as "an impenitent disciple of the gloomy and obstinate Foster Dulles." The paper denounced President Eisenhower for having "embraced the butcher Franco" on his recent trip to Spain. Philip Bonsai, the U.S.'s popular Ambassador to Cuba, was a different problem: Cubans have lately been cheering him in the newsreels. "How debased are those who applaud Bonsai!" said Revolución. "What an inconceivable alliance-Bonsai, Lojendio, the traitors, the war criminals, the big landowners and the thieves...
...newssheet (circ. 65,000) of the White Citizens' Councils of America. Inside a black-bordered box were listed 74 "organizations appearing in House and Senate committee records as favoring 'civil rights' and anti-South force legislation during 1957 and 1959." Among them: Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, American Veterans Committee, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, N.A.A.C.P., Catholic Interracial Council, the Protestant Episcopal Church, Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, the Methodist Church, United Automobile Workers, and Young Women's Christian Association...