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...process by automatically qualifying as literate anyone who has a sixth-grade education. Unfortunately, even this would not include a majority of Negroes in Mississippi and Alabama. What some Negroes want is federal cops in the county courthouse. "I don't see anything wrong with putting a marshal in voter-registration offices on the day that Negroes plan to register," says Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. Leader Aaron Henry. "It would encourage Negroes to register and dissuade the registrar from giving them trouble...
...government's response was characteristic Goulart. For talking against the government, the army marshal who is president of the officers' club was arrested, along with other outspoken officers. But then everybody got a raise. Congress shouted through an average 80% pay increase for all federal employees, including the armed forces. President Goulart, who had solemnly promised President Kennedy a period of austerity in return for a $398.5 million dollar loan commitment, signed the big pay raise. Before the month is out, printing presses will have to roll off about 50 billion new cruzeiros...
...plan for avoiding a nationwide railroad strike a secret right down to the moment he was ready to unwrap it. Only a few members of his own New Frontier team knew what he was going to propose. He wanted to spring his plan on Congress before critics could marshal any arguments. Then, to the White House one day, he summoned a passel of congressional leaders. Seated at the Cabinet Room's spacious, coffin-shaped table, he somberly reported that management and union negotiators were deadlocked, and that federal intervention was the only way out. Then he revealed his secret...
Died. Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 79, first Viscount Alanbrooke of Brookeborough and Chief of the British Imperial General Staff from 1941 to 1946, a brilliant staff officer little in the public eye while he was helping chart Allied strategy but later in full, controversial view when his wartime diaries became the basis for The Turn of the Tide and Triumph in the West, in which he attacked virtually every top American (Ike: "no real commander"; Patton: "A character") and grandly regarded himself as the real architect of victory; of a heart attack; in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire...
...Moon. Like so many Son of and So-and-So Meets sequels, this offspring of 1959's The Mouse That Roared just barely squeaks by. Sorely missed is Peter Sellers, who in the triple role of Grand Duchess Gloriana of Grand Fenwick, Prime Minister Mountjoy and Field Marshal Bascombe managed to make Roared an off-beat tour de force. Neither waggish, wrattled Margaret Rutherford as the 1963 model Gloriana nor fatuous, foppish Ron Moody as the new Mountjoy manages to do more than add tricks to what is already too tricky...