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Rhode Island Senator John Pastore was cited as "marginal"-a particular concern to CBS. Pastore chairs the Subcommittee on Communications, with jurisdiction over broadcasting regulations. His committee hearings are often an ordeal for the networks, and broadcast executives are always fearful of restrictive legislation. Clare Dean Conley, then Stream's editor, recalls: "We got vibes from CBS that they didn't want trouble with Pastore. The word was 'Do what you have to do, but take it easy...
According to their older sister Clare, 26, the girls showed little active interest in politics until 1968, when they joined the civil rights movement, which was dedicated to securing equal voting rights for Northern Ireland's Catholic minority. The turning point in the Prices' conversion to hard-line militancy came when they participated in the 1969 civil rights march from Belfast to Londonderry; Protestant hooligans ambushed and stoned the young marchers...
...procedure can provide a starving victim with 1,750 calories a day, but it is an exhausting and frightening experience. Shortly before the government announced that the Price girls had ended their fast, their sister Clare reported that they weighed less than 98 Ibs. each, that their skin had turned waxen, their hair was falling out and their mouths were covered with sores. The prison dentist confirmed that the sisters' teeth had been loosened under pressure from the mouth clamp. Last month, after doctors had said that the girls would probably die sooner from continued force-feeding than from...
...Hooray for Clare Boothe Luce...
...Clare Boothe Luce, I love you-and Richard M. Nixon too! Shame on TIME...