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...racial rancor, lost to Democrat John Bell Williams, 48, by a vote of 293,188 to 126,753. Williams, a strident dissident who bolted the Democratic Party in 1964 to support Barry Goldwater and thereby lost his seniority in the House of Representatives, cashed in on Phillips' plea to voters to give up the fight against desegregation in order to elevate Mississippi economically. Phillips' radical suggestion tarred other Republicans: only one of 60 G.O.P. candidates was victorious, and the Republicans lost the two house and one state senate seats they had captured in 1963. Lamented one Mississippi Republican...
...demonstrators responded to this rational plea almost immediately, Ford said. They released the Dow representative before "police action and possible violence" occurred...
...Phoenix, despite a plea of insanity, Accused Mass Murderer Robert Benjamin Smith, 19, was found guilty and now faces the gas chamber. Smith is the high school student who shot to death four women and a child in a Mesa, Ariz., beauty parlor, after getting them to lie down, heads to the center, like spokes of a wheel (TIME, Nov. 18). When police arrived only moments after the killings, Smith announced laconically: "I wanted to get known, just wanted to get myself a name." Defense psychiatrists testified that Smith could not have known right from wrong. "For him," said...
What made the recommendation something of a surprise was the nature of the group that proposed it: the Third World Congress of the Lay Apostolate in Rome, most of whose 2,900 participants are Establishment Catholics closely associated with ecclesiastical affairs. Even more striking was the fact that the plea closely followed upon a stern papal warning to the laity against seeking too ambitious a role in governing the church. Preaching at a Mass for the congress at St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Paul warned against the danger of creating "two parallel hierarchies" of clergy and laymen. "Anyone...
Glimp made his second and final plea to not serve their purpose to detain Leavitt further...