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Russian spacemen crowed last week, and they had plenty to crow about. They had hit the moon, and U.S. scientists were not inclined to minimize their achievement. Furthermore, the Russians declared that they had been able to guide their missile in midflight, correcting its course to make sure it hit its target...
Pattern of Flight. In 2½ hours it was all over. Their captain killed, the surviving Laotian troops broke for the safety of the jungle. Three days later, 46 of the original 195 defenders of Xieng Kho straggled into the provincial capital of Samneua, 25 miles distant as the crow flies...
Ross Barnett. the tenth son of a Confederate veteran, is a prosperous Jackson damage-suit lawyer and a Baptist deacon, and, happily for his campaign, he talks and acts like a back country bumpkin, a campaign posture that wowed the rednecks. In his Jim Crow campaign, he resorted to every sort of distortion and epithet. He defied the U.S. Supreme Court, hurled Mississippi mud at Gartin (whom he called "Little Boy Blue") and Gartin's patron, moderate (for Mississippi) Governor J. P. Coleman. Last fortnight in Poplarville, scene of the recent lynching of a Negro named Mack Parker (TIME...
...obedient satellite world of Eastern Europe, the press was quick to crow, "A Personal Victory for Nikita Khrushchev," and it became indelicate to attack the classic enemy, "American ruling circles." The "Paris-Bonn Axis" became the new target, and Communists sought to isolate West Germany's Konrad Adenauer as the only warmonger left. Only in Communist China was there a delayed reaction, and then a restrained and dutiful approval of the Eisenhower-Khrushchev meeting (a similar lack of enthusiasm came from Formosa...
Presumably, Paul Butler munched these specifics along with his crow during his meeting with Rayburn and Johnson, but when newsmen poured into Mr. Sam's office to look at the bones, everything was tidy and all was sweet harmony. "We agreed," said Rayburn, "that none of the three of us is trying to be divisive. There was no loud talk, no violent disagreement, no fightin' and scratchin'." Rayburn added that he takes no stock in demands for Butler's resignation, and that he and Johnson assured Butler that they are true to the Democratic Party...