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...thick haze of smoke from burning warehouses along the Ozama River choked the city. The streets were a sea of glass, and looters darted in and out of the shops. At Caamaño's headquarters, the 14th of June's Rafael Tavera, who had called for "war," was nowhere to be seen. Caamaño himself seemed to forget everything except the clobbering he had taken. His secretary proudly reported that he had been right out there on the firing line. "When the shooting starts," she said, "the President is the first one to grab...
...last. In quick succession, swarms of U.S. and South Vietnamese aircraft blasted other bridges important to North Vietnam's transport system. Over one target, Communist Migs suddenly darted out of the haze and in a brief, ferocious blaze of gunfire brought down two U.S. Air Force...
...grey haze of industry billowed up from Guatemala City on the valley floor below, andthe impatient tootling of traffic jams sounded far into the hills. "I remember when there were just two cars in Guatemala-both Packards," said Lee Whitbeck, 82, a U.S.-born dairyman who went to Guatemala in 1916 and now operates a farm outside the capital. "They used to drive down those cobblestone streets all alone." Nowadays, Whitbeck never goes into town unless he has to. "You can't find a place to park," he grumbles...
...vain, for last night the Democratic Party abandoned the haze of cigar smoke for the gray glow of television. On each end of the narrow ball room, the Democrats set up ten-foot TV screens, and most of the party regulars spent the evening giued silently and domestically to them. Occasionally the President's face would spread across the screens, huge and winking, and the crowd would raise drinks in a listless rebel yell...
...South. He knew few Negroes well, and no civil rights leaders at all, except in briefest acquaintance. He never understood (or anyway portrayed) the urban and educated Negroes that have been the spearhead of the civil rights fight. He saw federal action on civil rights through a haze of fact and legend about the Reconstruction imposed from the North. He never appreciated the imperative need for legal sanction of a Negro's right to sit at a bar, get a haircut, swim in a pool. He only vaguely realized that civil rights legislation provides many a Southerner of good...