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Before Bobby got around to arguing against the county unit system, he undertook the pleasant task of presenting Senator Teddy for admission to the bar of the Supreme Court. Finally he got down to business. Clad in the customary morning coat and striped pants, he addressed the Justices: "May it please the Court . . ." At first he seemed nervous, even while reading from the brief prepared for him by Solicitor General Archibald Cox and Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall. But as he went on he gained confidence, delivered a firm, finger-jabbing appeal, answered a few gentle questions from the Justices...
...Boulevard Albert stormed 600 students and street urchins, shouting "Tshombe to the gallows!" At the British embassy, which is considered fair game because of London's friendly policy toward Katanga, the mob battered down the doors, sacked the offices, and tried to pry off a coat of arms because, as one student cried, "It's made of Katanga copper!" After an hour, the U.N.'s Congo Chief Robert Gardiner arrived and scattered the mob. All the while, a jeep-load of Adoula's cops sat chuckling near by, making no move to stop the pillage...
...lost in a crowd of artists and their works, peered at canvases spread before them and then at one another. "You like?" boomed the tall one with the familiar face. "I like. We'll buy the lot," said the one in the short sports coat. The third man, in a dark suit, scribbled checks. The process took about an hour, cost $5,000, and added another 100 paintings, sketches and etchings to the stockpile of something called the Vincent Price Collection...
...familiar face was Price, veteran of more than 50 films and a collector for 30 years. The short sports coat was Harry Sundheim Jr., a Chicago businessman and also a collector. The dark suit was Lester Salkow, a Los Angeles theatrical agent who is Price's business manager. The three were buying original art for Sears, Roebuck, which will sell it to the public along with snow removers, Oxford cloth shirts, storm windows and mink coats...
...portrait of himself on the wall, sniffed tentatively and dissolved into tears on the ever-ready shoulder of Toastmaster George Jessel. Jessel, whose tear threshold is lower still, joined sympathetically in the sobs: "I can stand to see a woman cry-that can be fixed by a new fur coat...