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During the strategy session, telephone calls were received from U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, urging King to postpone; Katzenbach promised that Government attorneys would help plead King's case before Judge Johnson on Thursday. Finally King came to a half-a-loaf decision: the march to Montgomery would start, but he would stop it before trouble developed...
...buying a $5 bag of marijuana from Philip Cook, 25, who had quit Cornell in January, and of mailing some of the stuff on to a hometown friend at Connecticut College. A grand jury charged Miss Heiberger and Cook with selling marijuana, a felony, but they were allowed to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges...
Weak as it was, Panair was still something of a national institution, and Castello Branco's sudden action brought shocked outcries. The governor of Amazonas State declared a state of emergency and flew to Rio to try and plead with Castello Branco. Panair's directors vowed to appeal the President's order to the Supreme Court, but it does not reconvene until March 9. By then the airline will probably have been torn apart by its competitors and creditors...
They will urge the passage of three bills that would either postpone construction or repeal the original legislation authorizing the Metropolitan District Commission to build the underpasses. The underpass foes will plead their case in Room $36 of the State House at a hearing begining...
Standoff. Even George Halas was bitten by the spending bug. Owner-coach of the Chicago Bears, Halas has a reputation for penny pinching that goes back 45 years; in the old days, he used to plead bankruptcy every year when contract time rolled around. He also has a team that captured the N.F.L. championship in 1963-but won only five games this year. Yanking the rubber band off his bankroll, Halas shelled out $50,000 for Kansas Halfback Gale Sayers, then sent George Jr. around with a $100,000 bundle for Illinois' All-Everything linebacker, "Animal of the Year...