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...began one hot July night in 1963. Two white attendants at the Mo-Jo gas station, just outside Port St. Joe, were robbed, taken into the woods, told to lie down and then shot dead. Police learned that earlier in the evening a group of black men and women had been arguing with the attendants about using a whites-only restroom. Pitts and Lee, who were part of the group, were apparently beaten after their arrest, and they soon pleaded guilty. Once behind bars, though, they persisted in claiming they were innocent. Three years later while the two were still...
Nixon now has five regular staff aides. They include former Marine Colonel Jack Brennan, his military aide as President; Private Secretary Nora Vandersommen, who was a White House secretary; Office Secretaries Loie Gant and Jo Anne Miller; and former Marine Sergeant Carl F. Howell, an assistant to Brennan. Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's longtime personal secretary, remains on Nixon's payroll but has worked mostly in Washington while awaiting retirement on a comfortable federal pension. The Nixons also still have Manolo and Fina Sanchez as personal servants. Manolo, his former White House valet, has taken on a strange...
...inevitable,' seems to be his motto." In truth, the Old Man's fatalism seems more than a bit ersatz. He never talks politics, but he openly derides the martial rhetoric of his Nazi superiors. The impression left is that if the stuff turned out by Jo seph Goebbels' propaganda ministry read more like Joseph Conrad, the Old Man would have more happily embraced the inevitable...
Died. Ranieri Mazzilli, 65, Acting President of Brazil briefly during the 1960s; following surgery; in Sao Paulo. Mazzilli first occupied the presidential palace during a tense 1961 impasse (when conservative soldiers threatened to block the accession of Leftist Vice President Joào Goulart) helping to reconcile the conflict and avert civil war. He again served as President-for twelve days-following the 1964 overthrow of Goulart...
...Jo Jo White had 24 points for the Celtics, who will try to make it two in a row over Houston Wednesday night...