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...invaded the city. As the sun rose Sunday, a sullen peace descended on Birmingham. There had been no winners in a war that had no heroes. Bull Connor was by no means Birmingham's only shame; the city's newspapers, for example, put the story of the midweek riot on an inside page (see PRESS). Yet at the same time, Negro Leader King could be criticized for using children as shock troops and for inciting the protests even as a new, relatively moderate city administration was about to take over Birmingham. President Kennedy also came in for criticism...
President Kennedy had planned to set out at midweek for an Easter holiday at Palm Beach. But then came word that a small steel company had announced a price hike (see U.S. BUSINESS). Kennedy postponed his leavetaking, called in Administration officials for consultation, finally came out with a statement that, compared to his savage 1962 assault on U.S. Steel, seemed downright benign-and gave the stock market a general lift. Then the President and a few friends jetted to Florida...
Nary a Nay. At midweek the committee's recommendations hit the House floor amid warnings that Powell's friends would arise to defend his reputation-and his funds. California Democrat James Roosevelt, as Powell's defender, had asked for two hours of debate time. But Roosevelt took the floor only to announce that "unfortunately, the chairman of the committee is ill today with influenza and cannot be here." The statement drew hoots of laughter from both sides of the House chamber...
...opened its new series in midweek prime time for one night only, instantly kicking it into the ghetto of weekend afternoons. Nonetheless, a project like this is more than praiseworthy. Mainly unsponsored. it represents money generously spent by the network on the potential of young performers...
...India's banyas (village shopkeepers) took advantage of the situation to boost prices. The evidence of the Chinese advance came, oddly enough, from transistor radios. At first it was possible to tune in on Indian army short-wave transmitters and hear orders and messages in Urdu. From midweek on, Indians listened to the messages of the advancing Chinese. An added source of information was the sibilant voice of a young Indian woman, who reads all Peking radio broadcasts beamed to India: Indian soldiers nicknamed her the "Yellow Peril...