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...that U.S. paratroopers landed, ex-Infantry Officer (Lieut. Colonel) Harry Ashmore sadly welcomed the invasion of Little Rock as the shock that might prompt Arkansas to "regain perspective, restore peace, sustain the law." The Gazette seemed even to prompt the enthusiastically pro-Faubus evening Democrat to aim a couple of mildly censorious editorials against the governor, but anti-Ashmore mutterings grew to shouts, and some businessmen started cornering the Gazette's Publisher Hugh Patterson to rail against his editor. Cracked Ashmore: "I'm lucky in having a publisher who does not consider what he hears at the countryclub...
...Bristol. BOAC already has lost "well over" $5,600,000 because of the 312 delay, snapped Smallpeice. "It will not be surprising if we come out with a deficit this year." BOAC Chairman Gerard d'Erlanger took his own swipe at Bristol when asked if the line expects prompt delivery on its order for 15 Boeing 707 jetliners. Growled he: "American manufacturers do have a habit of being on time...
Before the civil rights bill passed through the last stretch of the Senate foundry last week, the South's most famous Negro leader was drawing up plans for a Southwide campaign to make prompt use of the new weapon. Alabama's the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., hero of the history-making Montgomery boycott against Jim Crow buses, announced that his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (membership: 100-odd Negro leaders, mostly clergymen, in eleven states) is going to undertake a long-range drive to get Negro names on Dixie registration rolls...
Doctors concede that insurance plans have helped provide prompt payment of bills, but many also complain that patients who receive insurance checks direct spend them for other things, leaving the doctor to wait for his fee. All doctors agree that the most urgently indicated treatment is fewer and simpler forms. Says one: "It would be the greatest headache remedy since aspirin...
Last week both politicians and reporters wondered whether Dwight Eisenhower's experiences with the 85th Congress would prompt him to alter his philosophy. Did he plan to wage a Truman-type "Give 'em hell" campaign next year against the men who had opposed his programs? His no was clear and unqualified. Said he at the press conference: "I will just have to pursue what is natural...