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...difference does it make if there is a lawyer present or not? What difference does it make if you get the truth?" Fortas replied that the difference might be the Constitution. By the time Thurmond got to loyalty oaths, Fortas was beyond surprise. "Do you think," asked the South Carolinian, "that the parent of a child who has a Communist for a teacher has reason to be concerned?" Reply: "Oh, Senator, I can't answer that...
...Mendel Rivers' South Carolinian fief, the voters do all but pay scutage. The First District's Democrats have loyally returned him to Congress for 28 years; Republicans have long since accepted his seignorial reign and run only occasional token candidates against...
Almost inexplicably, Rivers, who wears his silver mane in the style of his South Carolinian hero John C. Calhoun, ran scared, plastering Charleston with billboards and TV spots. Ten days before the primary, Rivers arranged to have 15 members of his committee flock to Charleston along with Admiral Hyman Rickover to inspect a Polaris missile facility and laud Mendel...
...free-enterprising fashion, Kenneth T. Jones, a big, affable North Carolinian who came to the Pacific as a Seabee during the war, is as effective as the missionaries. Jones stayed on in the U.S. possession of Guam, amassed a $10 million fortune in supermarkets, department stores, motels, hotels, a construction company and ranching-and is increasingly spreading out into the nearby trust territories. Next week on Saipan he will open Micronesia's first modern hotel, the Royal Taga. Already booked for months in advance, the Taga is certain to bring tourists and money to Saipan; Jones is offering native...
...most restrained of the gun magazines until Ashley Halsey Jr., 58, became editor last year, Rifleman is now the leading crusader against gun controls. Halsey, a South Carolinian who was an editor of the Saturday Evening Post for 18 years, runs articles in every issue lauding the man with a gun. The July issue, which contains an admiring account of the military sniper throughout history, arrived in the mail just as snipers began shooting in the ghettos. Halsey has also expanded a regular feature called "The Armed Citizen," which reports the derring-do of shopkeepers and housewives who have gunned...