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...sallow malaprop from Tuscaloosa apparently infected Republican Committee Member John Buchanan, a fellow Alabamian, who in one felicitous tongue-trip referred to Shelton as the "inferior lizard." During the fruitless questioning of James R. Jones, 37, the Klan's Grand Dragon of North Carolina, his attorney explained that Jones was having trouble understanding the questions because "he does not have a high-school education." Virginia's Grand Dragon, Robert Kornegay, 37, would not even admit that he was a U.S. citizen. The request that most clearly affronted Shelton and his reluctant dragons was the Congressmen's repeated...
Last week, after years of fruitless efforts to have the Warsaw Convention rewritten, the U.S. announced that it will unilaterally denounce the treaty next May unless changes are made. This would leave the heirs of crash victims free to sue in U.S. courts any airline that services the U.S., provided the courts were willing to accept the jurisdiction. Since U.S. withdrawal would both seriously disrupt treaty proceedings and put foreign lines in for a lot of potential trouble, the airlines are anxious to make some adjustment to placate...
...Harvard Debating Team will uphold the affirmative position on the resolve that "the education of women is a fruitless pursuit," against Columbia at 8 p.m. in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
President Johnson acknowledged that "there are those who say the rule of law is a fruitless and Utopian dream. It is true that, if it comes, it will come slowly. But to deny the possibility is to deny peace itself." He still held hope that "we can strengthen the U.N.-not simply as a forum for debate, but as an arena for the solution of disputes." The opposite point of view was taken by Duke University's Arthur Larson, who felt that devastating blows had been dealt the rule of law not only by the India-Pakistan...
...Washington, London and Moscow all threw their weight behind a United Nations effort to arrange a ceasefire. With a unanimous Security Council vote behind him, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant hurried off to the Indian sub continent, where his homilies were greeted with outright scorn. After two days of fruitless meetings in Rawalpindi, a Pakistani official said: "Thant's visit is like a Boy Scout blowing his whistle, tweet, tweet, and telling us to be good. We have been good long enough." And for all its years of lip service to the U.N. and world peace, the Indian government...