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Nixon's most improbable and convincing exhibition of U.S. campaign methods was carried off before a ruined pagoda in Pegu (pop. 21,000), an ancient Burmese town 45 miles north of Rangoon. A crowd of a thousand Burmans awaited him in Pegu. Among them were a hundred Communist demonstrators carrying placards, one quaintly inscribed in English. "Go Back Warmonger, Valet of Wall Street." A sound truck blared anti-American propaganda. Nixon on arrival walked up to the nearest card carrier and said, "I notice these cards are addressed to Mr. Nixon. I am Nixon, and I'm glad...
...week's end, visibly buoyed, the vice president pressed on, right hand ready, toward teeming India (pop. 360 million...
Seigenthaler walked the streets, checked the police, the hotels, the credit bureaus of a dozen Texas towns. A fortnight ago, by rarest coincidence, he saw a grey-haired, bespectacled man with an oddly shaped left ear step off a bus in Orange (pop. 21,174), Texas. Seigenthaler was instantly discouraged: the man limped badly. But the reporter followed his quarry through a quiet neighborhood to a white, comfortably unkempt frame house. The thin, limping man was Thomas D. Palmer, a television salesman. His wife, a motherly looking woman, worked as a court reporter and often toiled at home after hours...
Dinkas & Bongos. That was at Juba, 750 miles south of Khartoum (pop. 82,700). The pattern was the same last week all over the 1,000,000 sq. mi. of desert, swamp and irrigated cotton land of the Sudan. In an area larger than the U.S. east of the Mississippi, 1,250,000 tribesmen, nine out of ten of them illiterate, were riding on bullocks or camels, trekking across dunes and marshes, to 2,000 polling booths, where the magic papers lay. Six of Sudan's eight millions are Northerners, who worship Allah but still practice female circumcision...
...warning of an air raid, flapping its wings and quacking. On Nov. 27, 1944 the vigilant Freiburg drake began cackling and would not stop. Freiburgers dived for their cellars although no warning had been given, and they got there just in time. A surprise Allied attack laid the city (pop. 109,822) in ruins. The drake's carcass was found beside a bomb crater...