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...under the present constitution, it was promptly dubbed the "Rigged Dissolution" be cause U.S. occupation authorities were the ones who arranged it. In 1952 came the "Surprise Dissolution" that caught everyone unawares. The "You Fool Dissolution" took its name from Premier Shigeru Yoshida's angry retort to a heckler in 1953. When Premier Eisaku Sato dissolved the ninth postwar Diet last week and called for new elections to be held on Jan. 29, his move seemed destined to go down in history as the "Black Mist Dissolution"; it developed from the fog of corruption and influence-peddling scandals (TIME...
Trapped, McNamara climbed atop a car, agreed to answer two questions from the students and offered to meet them later for more talk. Each time the Secretary tried to answer a question, he was shouted down. Irked by one heckler, he yelled: "You come up here-you seem to have all the answers." Finally giving up, he shouted: "When I was a student at Berkeley, I was both tougher and more courteous than you are today." While some students continued to hoot, others yelled for quiet. Cops formed a wedge to lead McNamara through the mob, then took him away...
Comedian Dick Gregory, who is also appearing at the hungry i, has seized on his new competitor's specialty for his own act just as easily as Father Boyd joined an entertainers' union. "Watch out," said Gregory. "The Rev. Boyd had a heckler last week, and he turned him into a pillar of salt." The peril of mixing show business and religion is that the quip may become more important than the Word...
...House of Representatives and 20 years as Republican leader, went down to defeat in the G.O.P. primary at the hands of an aggressive woman candidate who based her campaign on the same youth-v.-age attack that Martin had used to win his first election. Hennahaired Mrs. Margaret Heckler, 35, a pert, petite (5 ft. 21 in.) lawyer-housewife from Boston's upper-class suburb of Wellesley, tossed Martin's own 1924 quotes back at him with the comment: "If the country needed vigorous service in those years, certainly today it demands even greater vigor." Peggy Heckler...
...November, Mrs. Heckler must run against Democrat Patrick Henry Harrington, 46, a tough labor lawyer with three terms on the Bristol County board of commissioners behind him. Because of redistricting, the Tenth District now has more registered Democrats than Republicans, and Peggy Heckler will need every ounce of her vigor to hold the constituency for the Republican Party...