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...municipal watchdog-with a tendency to yip at everything from murder to pay raises for Houston city councilmen. Alarmed at Houston's high murder rate, the Press labeled the city "Murdertown, U.S.A.," campaigned so relentlessly for tighter gun registration laws that it drew scathing mail from nearly every quail-hunting and skeet-shooting type in Texas. Last January, impatient with the slow-moving police investigation into the slaying of Houston Housewife Wilma Selby, the Press rapped the police in an editorial and posted a reward for the killer. The chastened police promptly bestirred themselves, within ten days collared...
...Hyannisport: "We're going to canvass every precinct." ¶The usual "independent volunteers" or ganization was set up, charged with luring not only independents and Republicans into the Kennedy camp, but also "dissident Democrats" - that is, Northern and Eastern Democrats who cannot stand Johnson, and Southern Democrats who quail at Jack. National Chairman: Denver Lawyer (and onetime University of Colorado All-America football hero) Byron ("Whizzer") White, 43. White was studying as a Rhodes scholar and Jack Kennedy was prowling around as the U.S. ambassador's son when they met at Oxford in 1939; they met again...
...stocks that panicky investors dumped on the market. The specialists had no assurance prices would not keep falling until their fortunes were decimated-though the market rallied next day. To outsiders, Coleman's profession seems like gambling on a scale to make a Las Vegas bettor quail...
...South. Next morning Ike boarded his Air Force Boeing 707 jet at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., flew to the 14,000-acre Blue Springs, Ga. plantation of W. Alton ("Pete") Jones, chairman of the executive committee of Cities Service Co., to put in a couple of days hunting quail...
...just "as soon as they feed me." Right after lunch in Pete Jones's three-story white colonial mansion. Ike turned out in a rust-colored suède jacket over a tan cashmere shirt. In 3½ hours the President's party flushed 26 coveys of quail, and Ike himself, using a 20-gauge automatic shotgun, brought down eight birds. Next day he returned to the hunt, bagged his legal limit of twelve...