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...civilians, it will be a free bombing zone, where anyone who moves in the 25-sq.-mi. area will automatically be fired on as a Viet Cong. But there will be little for the Viet Cong to go back to: if the U.S. has its way, even a crow flying across the triangle will have to carry lunch from now on. Moreover, the U.S. intends to spend much of 1967 scorching the enemy's earth all over Viet Nam. Next likely candidates are War Zone C, bordering on Cambodia and thought to conceal the Viet Cong's national...
...spite of the fact that the Minnesota state bird is the loon, it would probably be mere appropriate for Vice President Humphrey to order that 20-lb. turkey for Richard Nixon and a nice juicy crow for himself...
...primary upset over the Democrats' machine-backed candidate, and badly shook both parties. While the Republicans tried feverishly to anticipate Shapp's strategy, Democratic bigwigs belatedly sought to win the parvenu's allegiance. At a banquet in Harrisburg, ex-Governor David Lawrence, longtime Democratic kingmaker, allowed: "Crow should have been the main dish. I must admit I am eating mine." Shapp thereupon served him another portion. After the dinner, he charged-with some reason-that Lawrence's organization had "stalled" Democratic progress, and demanded-unsuccessfully-that he be given control of the machine...
...Southerner, a recently published book in which he excoriated the stultifying influence of racism on the South, Georgia Congressman Charles Longstreet Weltner warned: "The South can lose again, just as we have lost for the past century. If Jim Crow is our goal, and equal justice our enemy, the South will lose...
Save for her piercing blue eyes, Lillian Smith hardly resembled a pioneering crusader for civil rights. Her manner was retiring, her voice soft and small. But her forceful message cut through the Georgia drawl: Jim Crow demeaned and diminished every Southerner, white or black. "Racial segregation has been a strong wall behind which weak egos have hidden for a long time," she wrote in 1951. She castigated Southern Governors who defied the U.S. Supreme Court's order to integrate the schools. As a result, she said, Southern whites "are losing their freedom to do right, to act as their...