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...President Johnson, from 1,900 federalized Alabama National Guards men, from platoons of U.S. marshals and FBI men. Miles ahead of the marchers, demolition experts searched each bridge, each underpass. Rifle-bearing troops were stationed at every crossroad along the route. Long before the demonstrators arrived at their overnight bivouacs, a thin line of soldiers swept cautiously across each field to check for mines, bombs or booby traps...
Last week Communist unions refused to let a Pan Am plane billet overnight at Djakarta, held up telegrams and mail to U.S. newsmen and embassy officials, and urged Indonesian servants in American households to quit their jobs. Whether Sukarno could or could not restrain them, the P.K.I, extremists, carrying coffins through the streets as they chanted about "our enemies the Americans," seemed determined to get every last U.S. citizen out of Indonesia...
...Would you like a chocolate, mad-ame?" asked the elegant Oriental as the overnight express to St.-Gervais in the French Alps pulled out of Paris' Gare de Lyon. Even though she should have been careful-after all, she and the stranger were alone in the compartment -Mme. Huguette Munck accepted a bonbon. It tasted bitter...
...Like Chessman. What beatings could not do, personal interest and kindness did. While in solitary, Sands was visited by crusading Warden Clinton T. Duffy. Duffy convinced the rebellious young prisoner that true rehabilitation would swing open "the Front Gate." Almost overnight Sands became a model prisoner and earned the right to work in the prison office and share a cell with another model prisoner-Caryl Chessman, who was then serving his first hitch at San Quentin. Years later, Chessman returned to San Quentin as a convicted kidnaper and rapist, and was executed. But Sands's reform was for real...
...After work I often slept on a desk at the office or stayed overnight when friends invited me to dinner in their homes," he said. "This was not because of a Bohemian bent in me. Far from it. According to the law, 'native' bachelors have to live in hostels in Johannesburg, ten or more strange men to a room. I chose to be a wanderer...