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...effect of this would be to outlaw literacy tests, poll taxes (which are still retained for State and local elections in five states) and a few other vestigial qualifications such as Vermont's freeman's oath...
Today, while the biggest war since Korea blazes in Southeast Asia, the U.N. stands mute and immobile. Red China, which the U.S. so far has managed to blackball from the U.N. as an international outlaw, once clamored to get in; now it sneers at the U.N. and threatens to set up a rival organization. Peking's ally, Indonesia, walked out trailing invective. Charles de Gaulle drops acid denunciations of what he calls "the Disunited Nations," and in a sense he is right. The General Assembly is now in adjournment until fall, having found itself unable to accomplish anything since...
...intercourse with each member of the club. But their favorite activity seems to be terrorizing whole towns. Once, roaring along on their "chopped hogs" (customized Harley-Davidson machines), they swept with their girl friends into the town of Porterville (pop. 7,991). With them were members of several other outlaw motorcycle gangs, the Stray Satans. Galloping Gooses, Comancheros and Cavaliers. Reports Lynch...
...Southern womanhood, Butler hit on a stratagem: any woman who insulted Union officers in the streets would be "treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation." To Southerners, this "Woman Order" sounded like an invitation to rape (though no incidents developed), and the Confederacy proclaimed Butler an "outlaw" to be hanged...
...Spain today, all the world's a sound stage. The Outlaw of the Red River, with George Montgomery, is now shooting on the banks of the Tagus River. Yacht to Jamaica never left Barcelona. Nor did Horst Buchholz as The Man from Istanbul. Orson Welles's epic of Falstaff, Chimes at Midnight, is packing up in Madrid, but Henry Fonda is just digging in around Segovia for The Battle of the Bulge. And in suburban Madrid, it looks as if Franco lost the Civil War after all: there, in a set ankle-deep in marble-dust snow...