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...University of Mississippi professor ticked off incident after incident to prove his thesis, noting with particular joy that Jackson mayor Allen Thompson "has changed overnight from one of the state's greatest racists to a very respectable pleader for law and order...
...date of the Democratic Convention-latest in a century-the national committeemen simply did not want a "long campaign." They figured-with some advisory aid from the White House-that Kennedy would look better as a working President during the summer than as a hustings political pleader. And, after all, if things seem to be getting tough, Kennedy can always make one of those "nonpolitical" tours...
...notice. The niceties of military precision were a remote problem last week to President Dwight Eisenhower and his guest. President Charles de Gaulle. The man of France was making his first visit to the U.S. in 15 years, not as a soldier but as a statesman, not as a pleader but as a person of power. His tall, awkward angularity was a symbol of his own and his country's pride: the re-emergent spirit of France...
...forward. Robert Rich was a pseudonym, masking one of about 150 Hollywood writers (plus an estimated 75 actors, producers, musicians) blacklisted by the industry since 1947 as suspected Communists or fellow travelers. The case was particularly embarrassing because the Motion Picture Academy had barred any Communist or Fifth Amendment pleader from Oscar competition. Last week both the Communist rule and the mystery of Rich's identity were suddenly rescripted...
When he showed his baggy-eyed cine-mobster's face on TV (TIME, Aug. 19) as a 140-time Fifth Amendment pleader before the Senate labor rackets investigating committee, arrogant, carefully tailored Johnny Dio, 43, seemed to have made crime pay pretty well: society had not managed to pin a hard rap on him since he served three years in Sing Sing for extortion back in 1937-40. Last week the law pushed over Johnny Dio's well-stocked applecart. In Manhattan, a General Sessions Court judge sentenced Dio and two of his henchmen, Max Chester and Samuel...