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Last week, his ammunition running low, Barbot was about to muster his mob for an all-or-nothing attack on Duvalier. He and his brother Harry, 45, were hiding in a straw hut at the edge of a sugar-cane field, six miles north of Port-au-Prince. But this time someone tipped off Duvalier. A swarm of government goons surrounded the hut and set fire to the field. The Barbot brothers and three henchmen stumbled out through the smoke and flames-smack into a hail of bullets...
Administration spokesmen can muster plenty of precedent: the interstate commerce clause has long been used to justify all manner of regulatory legislation. In testimony last week, Attorney General Kennedy cited 38 congressional acts sprung from the fertile soil of the clause...
There had been rumblings from the Pardo that Bronston's heroes were not Spanish. So, to smooth his position in Iberia and to dazzle the world at large, he poured the $10 million and every additional cent he could muster into a biography of Spain's national hero, El Cid Campeador. He hired Charlton Ben-Heston and Sophia Loren. He acquired thousands of extras from the Spanish army. He erected cities, opened rivers, and reproduced 11th century Spain. Money meant nothing. By now, he had Pierre du Pont and a titanic Manhattan bank standing behind him like attentive...
...lives of the two races rarely interest. An exception occurred this weekend when the Campbell's Soup factory held its annual open house, a "once a year day' complete with fried chicken, cold soda, popular music, and softball. But the factory needs every bit of Negro support it can muster. Along with Vita Foods (who distribute Eastern shore pickles and herring up and down the Atlantic seaboard) it is the town's chief source of Negro employment about 90 per cent of the colored people here work in one of the two plants. Just now there is a strong movement...
...duly wary of white Lady Bountifulness, is now searching for a Negro to take over his job. He plans to return to Yale next fall, aims to leave fulltime N.S.M. offices running in Boston, Hartford, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington and Chicago. His summer agenda is to muster 2,400 collegians to tutor 4,000 high school