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...flying squad from the sheriff's office, which later stormed into a meeting at union headquarters and arrested six union leaders. Armed with shotguns and pistols, growers prowled their fields on the lookout for demonstrators, checked with each other by short-wave radios. But the growers shunned violence lest the Mexican government withdraw all the braceros from the lettuce farms...
...G.O.P. Surplus. On the Republican side, both Ike and Nixon stand solidly behind the candidacy of the Eisenhower Administration's Labor Secretary James Mitchell. So does Republican U.S. Senator Clifford Case (although Case, no Nixonite, is fearful lest Mitchell appear to be too much a Nixon candidate, and has been trying to get an endorsement of Jim Mitchell from New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller). However, other things being equal, the balance of G.O.P. power in New Jersey is held not by nationally prominent Republicans but by county and district professionals. They have little love for Mitchell, claiming...
...Rock Creek Park, the police cavalry, worried lest its horses should react violently to the roar of the parade and crowds, spent hours conditioning the mounts by feeding them heavy doses of Spike Jones recordings over loudspeakers. As a result, by Inauguration Day the horses were immune to noise, but the cops were nervous wrecks. Parade officials put on a small-scale dry run down Pennsylvania Avenue, pronounced everything satisfactory. They arranged for a helicopter to hover over the parade and radio traffic information to an Army-run command post. There, in a van off Pennsylvania Avenue, a control center...
...Lest any comrade be misled by his cordial message congratulating new U.S. President Kennedy on his inauguration, Khrushchev added a plain statement: "The No. 1 enemy of the peoples of the world," said Nikita...
...must be on our guard," warned Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Hugh Scott some months ago, "lest the nation's capital come to resemble an unplanned cemetery." He may have been more prophetic than he knew. Last week the capital was mulling over a design picked by a national jury- for a memorial to Franklin Delano Roosevelt-eight soaring concrete and marble tablets that at once reminded some viewers of a collection of tombstones. "Instant Stonehenge," the Washington Post called...