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...Lester) B. Sullivan: "We have no intention of standing police guard for a bunch of troublemakers coming into our city." The state police came after an hour. Neither group was effective. At one point State Public Safety Director Floyd Mann saved a Negro only by pulling a pistol. A group of young whites poured an inflammable liquid on a Negro's clothes and set him on fire. One Montgomery woman held up her child so that he could reach out and beat on a Negro with his fists...
...Parchman's animal farm. With written permission from Governor Barnett, Jones sent Morris, along with two guards, off to fetch the horse. The guards and the horse came back. Morris didn't, and not until last week was he captured in a Tulsa, Okla., bar, a loaded pistol tucked in his belt...
...Well-Loaded Pistol Is Cocked & Ready Whether the outcome for Laos is battle or bargaining, true Laotian independence depends ultimately on the U.S.'s ability to apply its power on short notice in an awkward area. This is how that power was poised last week...
...Pistol Packers. The hurried fleet and troop movements of last week were only the cocking of the pistol over threatened Laos, and the man who held the gun had plenty to back him up. He is Admiral Harry Donald Felt, U.S. Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC), boss of the biggest military contingent in the world (TIME Cover, Jan. 6). At Felt's call are the 373,000 men. 1,000 aircraft and 400 ships of the First and Seventh Fleets, the Fifth and Thirteenth Air Forces, and the Army's 1st, 7th and 25th Infantry Division. Highly mobile...
...ninth-ranking World War II ace with 204 planes to his credit. The two spoke through an interpreter for a few minutes in the glaring Tunisian sun. They shook hands, posed for pictures. When Hafner admired Widen's wings, the American gave them to him, and his Colt pistol and his P-38's identification tag as well. As they parted, Widen invited Hafner to visit him in Philadelphia after the war. It was a scene worthy of Richthofen himself, or Hell's Angels...