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...Power of Peale. Still, going into last week's Masters Tournament at Augusta, Ga., golfs No. 1 money winner ($113,284 in 1964) was in anything but a jovial mood: he had not won a tournament in six months, and his official earnings this year totaled a piddling $14,400 - hardly enough to support the new blue and white Aero Commander he flies around the circuit...
Shanghai was the word for this operation. Some colleagues on Capitol Hill were dedicating a hearing room in honor of Carl Vinson, 81, retired chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. The crusty old statesman characteristically replied that he was "too busy" for such foofaraws. So out to Milledgeville, Ga., went an innocent phone call from the White House asking him to come spend the weekend. Of course Vinson accepted. And of course L.B.J. hustled him right over for the dedication ceremonies, where the President recalled his own days as a very junior member of Vinson's committee...
BILL LENZ Augusta, Ga...
...brilliant flame, 700 ft. tall, towered over the swampy coast near Brunswick, Ga., as the loudest continuous sound ever made by man shook both land and sea. For 64 roaring seconds the gigantic flame rivaled the sunlight while a column of light brown smoke climbed high in the sky. Then the fire stopped abruptly. The first static test of the most powerful rocket motor ever built was a complete success...
Plans for the Washington project were worked out last week in a seven-day conference SNCC in Atlanta, Ga. The decisions at Atlanta probably mean that many fewer students will work this summer in Mississippi for the council of Federated Organizations (COFO)-the coalition of SNCC, the Congress of Racial Equality, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, SNCC had provided the bulk of the COFO volunteers...