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...know we're conning them, because we know people want to be conned. They've given us the freedom to con them." --JOHN LENNON...
...Republicans said "pretty things" to the South, but then appointed Earl Warren to the Supreme Court. "The national Republican Party, for the first time since Reconstruction, put the bayonet in the backs of the people of Arkansas." Richard Nixon's Southern strategy, he added, was an attempt to "con" the South into repeating the mistake...
...rattled Hubert Humphrey, who invoked his 20-year friendship with Gene McCarthy to ask once again for his support. "It is inconceivable to me that we wouldn't be together when the choice is between Nixon and Wallace and myself," he said. In a brief Washington press con ference, McCarthy merely announced that he would not declare support for any candidate until his return from a va cation on the French Riviera. He added that he would probably not decide to back Nixon...
Propaganda Ploy. While the North Vietnamese have long since abandoned round-the-clock shelling of the isolated U.S. Marine outpost at Con Thien just south of the DMZ, northernmost I Corps remains the area where allied officers consider the enemy threat to be greatest. Last week lead elements of the North Vietnamese 320th Division were back in I Corps after a June retreat north across the DMZ, keeping up the pressure in clashes with U.S. soldiers and Marines across the breadth of Quang Tri province. The Americans, joined by South Vietnamese infantrymen, chased North Viet Nam regulars two miles into...
...they're not ashamed to respond." Furthermore, "they feel I'm one of their own." That is because Cash, lean and tough look ing at 36, sings with granite conviction and mordant wit about sadness, pain, loneliness and hard luck. Though he is not an ex-con himself, his empathy with jailbirds is a natural extension of the at titude expressed in his songs, that life both in and out of prison is a kind of sentence to be served...