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...political or moral way - not in a tactical way. So why should any of us talk of negotiation? If we talk about negotiation now, we give the enemy hope and confidence." Still no one in Saigon - or Washington - has any illusions about the job remaining to be done. General Harold K. Johnson, Army Chief of Staff, used to think in terms of ten years to finish off the Viet Cong, now says cautiously, "Maybe I'm a 9½-year man." Even the most optimistic U.S. officials think five years the outside minimum...
Last week, just as things seemed to be getting out of hand, Federal Judge Harold Cox of Jackson, acting on the N.A.A.C.P.'s appeal of the state court injunction against demonstrations, ruled that Natchez Negroes could parade against grievances if they marched two abreast on sidewalks and obeyed traffic signals; not to be outdone, the Klan won the same right in a Mississippi court. Cox also ordered all jailed demonstrators released on $200 bonds. The night of their federal-court victory, Negroes paraded 1,000-strong through Natchez in the city's biggest civil rights demonstration, chanting...
Tommies or Tobacco? Last week-barring an outright threat of war from Prime Minister Harold Wilson-a declaration of independence seemed right around the corner. Following a week of talks with Wilson in London, Smith held a 95-minute press conference at which he declared that Wilson refused to "negotiate" independence on Rhodesia's terms, and therefore "we have to face up to the alternative, which is U.D.I." What Wilson wanted from Smith was a specific, concrete timetable toward total African enfranchisement. What he got was a promise that a sovereign Rhodesia would grant blacks their rights some time...
Pathetic Absolution. Sherm also had standards, grandly banished any of those guilty of incurring his displeasure. At one time or another the banished list included Humphrey Bogart, who told Billingsley, "You stink," New Yorker Editor Harold Ross, who published an unflattering profile of W.W., Josephine Baker, who complained about slow service and had the added disadvantage of being a Negro, and Jackie Gleason, whom Sherm declared "a drunken...
...ball and four-ball foursomes, the ten-man U.S. team smashed through the singles, taking ten and halving one of 16 matches, with Arnold Palmer clinching the tournament by stroking an 18th-hole eagle to beat his opponent's birdie-and dazzle an army that included Prime Minister Harold Wilson...