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...guitar-plunking Jimmie (You Are My Sunshine) Davis vowed that he would rather go to jail than see Negro children admitted to the state's white schools. He might not be heading for jail, but Davis tangled with a federal court last week to head off an approaching platoon of Negro first-graders...
Next day a tight-lipped Bunche headed for the airport to await the plane that would fly him back to Léopoldville. When he got to the field, he found a platoon of gun-toting troops, apparently ready to riddle the plane if it proved to contain the vanguard of arriving U.N. troops. Nearby were trucks and oil drums to be used as runway obstacles if more planes arrived. Sensing a delicate moment, Bunche grabbed the airport radio microphone and asked the pilot of the plane heading for the field whether any soldiers were on board. Assured there were...
Paddy Poopers. In Bario, Sarawak, a plague of rice-ravaging rats and mice pooped out after the British Royal Air Force parachuted a platoon of cats into the area...
...nomination. His battered green Plymouth has rolled 63,000 miles into 20 of the state's 21 counties (v. five counties visited by Case in this campaign). In New Jersey supermarkets, Robert Morris has become as common a commodity as ripe eggplant. Bankrolled by New Jersey's platoon of wealthy, powerful ultraconservatives (among his top supporters: Johnson & Johnson Board Chairman Robert W. Johnson, Publicist James Selvage), Morris has blanketed the state with billboards and buttons, bought 392 one-minute radio spots a week. Incumbent Case's modest campaign is run out of a rent-free Newark basement...
Last week there were strong signs that Prince Juan Carlos was right, and the smart money was wrong. With a platoon of army generals and government ministers. Franco traveled 100 miles from Madrid to meet Pretender Don Juan at a hilltop castle in western Spain. It was their first meeting since 1954. Out of the eight-hour talk came a cautiously worded communique that all but named Don Juan as Franco's choice to take over when he is gone...