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...Edwards ally, State Senator Fletcher Morgan, started an investigation that, he hinted, might last for the next two years, until the legislature reconvenes. "That means a two-year period to further harass and sabotage the program," says Dr. Flipse. At week's end Governor
...SOUTH: The Attorney General would have the right to burst into all sorts of situations where he has no business, harass and thus drive from public office state or local officials whom he might suspect and, in a sense, have the unthinkable power of actually making laws. Example: he could get a court order breaking up a White Citizens' Council meeting...
...soldiers and their families) would wreak havoc with the livestock, tweed, seaweed and egg-packing industries. Said he: "The range will have to be built over our dead bodies." When the Air Ministry showed no disposition to re-roost its rockets, 16 crofters flew to England to harass the aliens on TV. Last week Father Morrison began talking ominously of his "trump card," a scheme to have the entire flock of crofters emigrate to Canada. "It would cause a revolution in Scotland," he prophesied. Of his own role in the fight, Morrison says: "The tradition here is that the clergy...
Space Navies. If one nation has established a manned, armed satellite as a pillbox revolving around the earth, rival nations will be forced to find means of destroying it. They may try manned vehicles that could maneuver handily like PT boats of space. These vehicles could harass enemy satellites, shooting them down with space torpedoes or filling their orbits with steel shot revolving in the opposite direction at 20,000 m.p.h. Next step might be space destroyers to deal with the space PT boats...
...buses rolled passengerless along streets clogged with trudging Negroes, sympathetic white motorists of Johannesburg began more and more to stop and offer lifts. Strydom's police set up roadblocks to harass the drivers, checking and rechecking licenses and registrations, whipping out tape measures to see if the law providing a 15-in. space for each passenger was being observed, citing every letter of the law to delay the car-lift. In the cities themselves, police searched Negro hotels and the servant quarters of white homes to smoke out workers staying overnight without police passes. Railroads refused...