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McKeithen met with Young, Hicks, Lomax, Charlie Sims, leader of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, and others. During the hour-and-a-half session, McKeithen asked: "You've been demonstrating for six months and what did it get you?" Retorted Sims: "It got you to come down here, didn't it?" Lomax told McKeithen: "Once we get our freedom here in Louisiana, I'm gonna move in and run agin you." Later, at a mass meeting, Lomax said that CORE would bring in "some of the biggest religious names in the world, the same people...
During his hour-and-a-half speech, with time out for fortifying sips of port, Salazar appeared decrepit but sounded vigorous. Because of a wave of "black racism," he complained, Portugal's "civilizing mission" in Portuguese Guinea, Angola and Mozambique is in jeopardy. Asked Salazar: "Is the language that we teach those people superior to their dialects or not? Does the religion preached by the missionaries surpass fetishism or not? Is not belonging to a nation of civilized expression and world projection better than narrow regionalism without means for defense or progress...
...fine time--everybody with enough brains to be here in the first place. "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" makes a British slum saga seem like the musings of a man lying on a hill, head on fingers. Finney is a good and thoughtful man; he spends his allotted hour-and-a-half looking for a livable, just philosophy of life. The fact that he pursues life's clusive truths through a variety of well-photographed beds and bars keeps us wide awake, but you guys have searched for the same things in Harvard common rooms, at Elsie...
During an hour-and-a-half talk that held his audience spell-bound, William A. Rusher, Publisher of the National Review, concentrated on two main topics: the "psychic difficulties of the West," and the mistakes that cost Nixon the Presidency...
...YORK--"If he doesn't show up soon," a policeman told part of the crowd awaiting Senator Kennedy's progression up Broadway Saturday night, "we'll all catch pneumonia and won't be able to vote Tuesday." It was pouring rain, and the candidate was already an hour-and-a-half late for his "torchlight parade." The first segment of the show, about 150 cars decorated with Kennedy-Johnson posters and carrying electric torches, had passed at 7 p.m--on time--and has met an apathetic reception...