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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been hard not to. In the eleven months since "GoGo" Kirk, 41, took office, hardly a day has passed without Page One pictures and stories about him in Florida's press. Whether wooing and marrying German-born Beauty Erika Mattfeld, 33, running his 37-foot sloop aground in mirror-calm seas off Miami, or facing down Rap Brown at a Black Power rally in Jacksonville, the fleshily handsome Governor has always been ready with a colorful quote or bizarre gesture to enhance his swinging image. His travels out of state in a private Lear jet have averaged...
...Egypt's disastrous defeat by Israel in June, and in September, while under house arrest for allegedly plotting a military coup, Amer either committed suicide-the official version of his death -or was killed. After his death, intelligence agents of another Arab state obtained in Cairo a 14-page document said to be Amer's last testament. Though the Middle East makes a business of forgery, sources who knew Amer well and have read the document claim that on the basis of its style, opinions and signature, it is unmistakably Amer's. It not only criticizes Nasser...
...reaction to their capitulation over Cyprus, were unwilling to risk a showdown that would exacerbate their strained relations with Greece's conservatives. Rather than arrest the publishers, the junta offered a compromise: if the newspapers would run the regime's attack on Karamanlis on the main news page, they could run Karamanlis' attack on the junta on an inside page. All eight Athens papers agreed, and Greek readers thereupon had the unusual experience of reading the first criticism of the junta since it seized power on April...
...common practice among farmers to pay field hands and migrant workers less than subsistence wages, and fail to provide such minimal accommodations as toilets and running water. After personal inspection of farm areas and migrant-labor camps, he sat down in March 1966 and wrote a 47-page proposal to Sargent Shriver, director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity...
...page stencilled booklet warns "would-be studs" against girls wearing gold crosses, "the cursed circle pin," pleated plaid skirts, and dresses with high collars, all "worn almost exclusively by socially unenlightened girls, i.e., virgins...