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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mississippi march. As the week began, the marchers plodded through the red dust of Belzoni-where a Negro minister was murdered ten years ago for trying to register voters-and towns with ominous-sounding names like Midnight. At Louise a score of marchers led by King left the main group and headed for Philadelphia, the town of brotherly love, Mississippi-style, where three civil rights workers were slain in 1964. There, white Mississippians soon abandoned the sullen restraint they had shown through the march's first fortnight...
...Jackson. Comedian Dick Gregory, Showman Sammy Davis Jr. and Actor Marlon Brando turned up in Tougaloo to perform for the marchers the night before their seven-mile trek into Jackson. Meredith, recovered from his wounds, also flew back but at first refused to have anything to do with the main body of marchers, with the cryptic comment: "There have been some shenanigans going on that I don't like." In the end, Meredith decided to rejoin the march that he had started and lead the column on its last...
...California Republicans, cheered by a poll showing Ronald Reagan well ahead in his race to unseat Democratic Governor Pat Brown, dropped $300,000 into the party coffers at a Los Angeles lovefest. Though the affair's main speaker was ex-Californian Richard M. Nixon, Reagan earlier announced that he did not need campaign help from outside the state-a message clearly meant to dissociate himself further from Barry Goldwater. "This campaign is for the people of California," said Reagan, "and I personally would like to keep it that...
Questions of Understanding. Like Bonaparte, De Gaulle quickly discovered that the mere invasion of Russia -however glorious-is not tantamount to victory. On the night of his arrival, after a dinner of caviar, cucumber soup, and jellied deer's-tongue, De Gaulle struck his main theme: "France would like to see the harmful spell [of the cold war] broken and, at least as far as she is concerned, a beginning of new relations toward relaxation, harmony and cooperation with the East European states. Paris, in talking of this to the East, necessarily addresses itself to Moscow. The re-establishment...
...Romeo and Juliet, and De Gaulle, who was seated beside Klavdia Kosygin (Mme. de Gaulle's hostess throughout the week), loved every minute of it, especially the dueling scenes. He was also happy the next day, when the political talks took a more favorable turn. This time the main interlocutor was Economist Kosygin, who apologized for Soviet failure to deliver on 1964's Franco-Russian trade agreements. Said Kosygin: "You are too expensive." Still, he offered to speed up the retarded orders, and his underlings announced only a few hours later that the French firm Chausson had received...