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Royal Ancestry. But "Fritz" was not out yet. As Heuss and the Queen rode at a horse's pace in an open coach from the station to Buckingham Palace, the crowds stood silent except for an occasional shout, mostly in German. There was none of the hostility shown Nikita Khrushchev in 1956, but Londoners were at best curious, and at worst cold...
There is the great wasteland effect of Huntington Ave., better forgotten perhaps, and the histrionics of Washington Street, of a more recent vintage. There are the outlying districts, the products of a new economy, functional in their own way. None the less, the antique shimmer of a Brahman past has always represented Boston qua Boston, and most likely it always will.. . . Stained glass keeps out the light...
Even admitting that Kennedy is none too good, his almost unknown Republican adversary seems far worse. Vincent J. Celeste, an East Boston attorney, has never held an elective office in the state. As qualifications for the Senate, he lists an unsuccessful candidacy against Kennedy in 1950 and four years' work as a secretary in the office of former Governor Herter...
...Tuesday. None other than Secretary of State Dulles, at his press conference, got up to criticize Dick Nixon. Said Dulles, "I do not think it wise that current aspects of foreign policy should be injected in the campaign." Dulles added specifically that Nixon's Chicago statement "might fit without the limits which I hope both sides would observe." Later Dulles phoned Nixon to explain that he had not meant to be critical, next day put out a confusing statement that Nixon was only replying to Democratic criticisms and "in those circumstances I fully concurred in the need for that...
...pronouncing sentence, Judge Benjamin Halevi said: "There are important considerations for not imposing the severest sentence [life imprisonment], the main consideration being that none of the eight men found guilty initiated the order, but all acted as instruments in transmitting and implementing it." But the judgment added, it is Israeli criminal law, inherited from the British, that an Israeli soldier must disregard an order to commit a "manifestly unlawful" act-one so monstrous that "it blinded the eyes and stabbed at the heart" of the "average" person...