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...asked, 'Do you mind sleeping in Joe Alsop's sheets?' " But among all the diverse types who trooped to the Schlesinger house, Novelist McCarthy cannot recall ever having met a Republican. "Arthur just doesn't like Republicans," she ventures. "There is a certain amount of cow-boys-and-Indians about it." Summers, the Schlesingers shifted their headquarters to a weathered frame house on Cape Cod, in the section of Wellfleet known as "the woods," originally designed as a bird sanctuary and now a kind of enclave of intellectuals...
Nevertheless, in a chilling study of Southern "law enforcement" that was issued last week, the congressionally created U.S. Civil Rights Commission appointed by the President recounted case after case of excessive bail, deliberate court delays, harsh sentences and cruel jail conditions-all tactics that were used to cow Negroes long before the civil rights movement got started. Calling for federal action, the commission urged on-the-spot FBI arrests and injunctive relief against state prosecutions of citizens trying to exercise First Amendment rights, such as peaceful assembly...
...same air of stern determination spread through Rawalpindi. Civil servants worked round the clock, and on the desks of key officials lay a blue volume of contingency papers labeled "War Book." Auto headlights were dimmed with smears of mud and cow dung, and trucks were camouflaged with leafy branches. For three successive nights, Indian bombers struck at Karachi's harbor installations, and the wail of air-raid sirens blended with the sobbing call to prayer of muezzins atop minarets. A bitter Pakistani official said, "Let's fight it out and get it over with. Either we become slaves of India...
...Calm down!" yelled Paul McCartney through the pelting jelly-bean rain in San Francisco's Cow Palace. "Things are getting dangerous." That was nothing new, but as the Beatles fought through the last engagement of their late-summer U.S. campaign, the casualties were especially heavy. One cop was knocked cold, conked by a flying Coke bottle, two others had minor injuries, 231 beatlenuts fainted, 94 got first aid, and five-months-pregnant Julia Stewart, wife of the Kingston Trio's John Stewart, was nearly trampled when she was jostled to the bedlam floor. C'est la guerre...
...giving way to sealed tins of vegetable oil; kerosene-burning hurricane lanterns are supplanting the traditional Aladdin-like mud diva in peasant huts, and well-to-do farmers often buy a second lantern to hang outside as a sign of affluence. Though most villagers still prefer cooking fires of cow dung, some huts now boast $2 oil stoves. Rural electrification is also spreading, but slowly, with an estimated 80% of India's power requirements still supplied by animal and human effort. The current Five-Year Plan calls for less than 10% of India's villages to be electrified...