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Lyndon Johnson swung into the offensive. On his own delegate-hunting safari through the West, he won the loudest applause by booming out: "Would you apologize to Khrushchev?'' Invariably, the audiences boomed back: "NO!" Back in Washington, L.B.J. studied the Moscow cables as carefully as the G.O.P.'s Thruston Morton had-and made fast political capital of them. Shortly after Khrushchev's latest blast, Johnson took to the Senate floor. "Premier Khrushchev has launched a verbal attack upon our President which reached new heights of vituperation," he cried. "The incident underscores the fact that the nation...
...descriptions of the hum are surprisingly uniform. It is ugly and penetrating, louder inside a house than out side, and loudest of all at night and on weekends. The hum's pitch never varies, and it seems impossible ever to get "near er" to the sound. "For the majority," reports Hyams, "the hum is just below the threshold of audibility, but for those who can hear it, refined torture." By now, Hyams was himself hearing it on occasion. He took the matter up with the county council, but was brushed off. A local M.P. raised the question...
...left in plenty. "The people have a right to know," said he in the passage that drew the loudest applause from the capacity audience of 3,300, "why we have lost our unquestioned military superiority; why we have repeatedly allowed the Soviets to seize the diplomatic initiative; why we have faltered in the fight for disarmament; why we are not providing our children with education . . . why we spend billions of dollars storing surplus food when one-third of humanity goes to bed hungry . . . why millions of Americans lead blighted lives in our spreading urban slums...
Voice of Conscience. A few protests came from the tiny group of Progressive Party members of Parliament, but the loudest voice of opposition came from churchmen. From Swaziland, where he had fled to avoid arrest by Verwoerd's police, Ambrose Reeves, Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, published an Easter message: "As Christians, we dare not pretend that we have no responsibility for all that is happening in South Africa ... To do that would make us absentees from history." Militant Joost de Blank, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, aimed his attack at the Dutch Reformed Church, which provides the philosophic base...
...progressed through France's heavily leftist south, local Communists, augmented by busloads of comrades from afar, took over key positions along his route and at prearranged signals waved red flags and chanted admiring slogans. In Marseille, where the shouts were loudest, Khrushchev Son-in-Law (and Izvestia Editor) Alexei Adzhubei admiringly remarked to Soviet Propaganda Boss Leonid Ilyichev: "Comrade, you always handle the Agitprop well!" Spiking the Canon. Clicking away insatiably, Soviet cameramen captured scenes of enthusiasm designed to convince movie audiences behind the Iron Curtain that all France had embraced Nikita...