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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are now 43 Citizens for Kennedy-Fulbright chapters in 22 states, including two in L.B.J.'s home state of Texas (Austin and San Antonio). We boast a membership of nearly 4,000 in 48 states plus the District of Columbia. This "draft movement" has only just begun. We expect to have an even larger impact in the future...
...Athens, the birthplace of democracy and often the site of its suffering, the floodlit Acropolis looked down upon a peaceful city preparing to retire for the night. Late diners strolled through the Plaka district of restaurants and tavernas, and traffic thinned to a trickle in the city's center. Then, only moments after midnight, moving so fast that it all seemed over in minutes, shadowy figures in battle dress began to appear everywhere. From barracks in Athens and all over Greece, troops slipped quietly out and took up battle stations in every key town, at every major intersection, at every...
...face. He has feigned insanity twice and once arrived on a stretcher. In the middle of his trial last January, he fired his lawyer, Frances Kahn, because she was a "prosecution spy" and took over his own defense. The detective who arrested him he called a "sadist." Assistant District Attorney Frank Rogers became the "persecutor." Judge Gellinoff was an "animal." Once, while cross-examining a prosecution psychiatrist, Kayo posed an hour-long hypothetical question. "Now, Doctor," he finally concluded, "assuming everything I said to be true, do you have an opinion as to whether District Attorney Rogers is crazy?" Improper...
...started newspapering as an $18-a-week copy boy for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He was promoted to clerk, then to reporter. Harry had nerve. He dug. He probed. He was brassy, tough, cocky. Harry had pull at city hall. With the help of a former assistant district attorney, he browsed freely through confidential files in the D.A.'s office to get leads for his searing exposes of rackets and corruption. By the 1950s, his byline appeared regularly; by last month, there was no dispute that he had raked more muck, produced more exclusive stories and uncovered more crookedness than...
...business particularly vulnerable to bad publicity, and Karafin and Scolnick said so to one of its practitioners, Joe Py. Public Relations Man Karafin, they said, could help Py. He had a lot of friends and could provide valuable advice, especially since the Pennsylvania State Banking Department and the Philadelphia district attorney's office were looking into the business. They asked for a $5,000 retainer. Py said he would think it over...