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...sizable number of people are so concerned that they have in effect turned the quest for the "real assassin" into an evangelistic vocation. Self-appointed investigators are at work throughout the nation, hoping to trip over some bypassed pebble of evidence that will crack the case wide open. They pore endlessly over the 10,400,000 words contained in the commission's report and 26-volume collection of testimony and exhibits. (The Government Printing Office has sold 1,820 sets at $76 each, plus 145,266 copies of the report itself.) Amateur Sherlocks have besieged the National Archives with...
Defense Attorney James Hudson, 36, had his own explanation for his clients' conduct. "These pore little old country boys," Hudson told the all-white jury, "entered into a conspiracy all right-a conspiracy to protect you and me, to keep racial violence from tearing apart Athens, Georgia." Whether the jury was convinced remained a secret. Though a verdict was reached, U.S. District Judge William A. Bootle ordered it sealed, pending this week's trial-on the same federal conspiracy charges-of three other Athens Klansmen accused of harassing Negroes...
...focus on contemporary world events such as the war in Viet Nam and the Cuban missile crisis, including a hoped-for interview with Khrushchev. Another possibility is the theater of cruelty, a kind of sauna bath of the senses, designed to leave playgoers shocked and tingling at every emotional pore. British Director Peter Brook masterminded Broadway's full-length initiation into the theater of cruelty, this season's surprise smash success, Marat/ Sade...
...many readers do know the difference that Hot Rod has the distinction of being the most dog-eared magazine in the U.S. More than twelve car buffs pore over each copy, reports W. R. Simmons research company, which conducts readership studies for magazine publishers. Petersen's Motor Trend (monthly circ. 500,000) is not far behind, with 9.02 readers per copy. A sort of high-power consumer magazine, it "is for the average fellow with an above-average interest in autos," says Petersen. Car Craft, Rod & Custom, and Sports Car Graphic cover the other auto buffs Petersen could think...
...wonks from now till doomsday and they'd still be number one," said John Potter '66, a member of the Phoenix SK Club. A member of another club confided, "No one will say it in the open, but every damn one of us would rather be in the Pore...