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Next day the Washington Post and Times Herald hailed him: "An inspiring plea ... It is hard to disagree with Mr. Folbright." Added Adlai E. Stevenson: "I made the same point in two campaigns." But the New York Times was not bemused: "The speech went as far back as Sparta and Athens to illustrate some of its points, but perhaps the most remarkable point was that a Senator from Arkansas could speak so long and so eloquently . . . without once mentioning or discussing Little Rock...
Bench Warrant. In Tallahassee, Fla., Circuit Court Judge Vassar B. Carlton, whose plea for a divorce from a "nagging and badgering wife" was rejected by a fellow justice, declared in an appeal to the State Supreme Court 'that "a judge has a right to a divorce as much as anybody else...
...first: CBS's 1954 plea for TV's right of access to public hearings...
...elderly light bombers began to cut through holes in the clouds and buzz the city low across rooftops. "Those crazy cowboys!" remarked a watching Pan American pilot from his poolside deck chair at the Hotel Tamanaco, a mile or two away. In the afternoon, as a more urgently signaled plea for army help, the airmen strafed the palace and Seguridad headquarters, dropped four bombs (only one burst, killing no one). A Vampire, hit, trailed black smoke, landed at a nearby commercial airport...
...general blanket boycott of Roman Catholic candidates for public office seems unwise and unfair." So says Paul Blanshard, the lawyer-author who almost a decade ago-in his book American Freedom and Catholic Power-sweepingly attacked Catholic influence in the U.S. But to his plea for fairness. Blanshard added some major qualifications. Voters, he suggested (in a revision of his book to be published in March), should ask three questions of any Catholic candidate for the presidency...