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...Albany, Georgia, agents because they were all Southerners." A check of FBI records, said Hoover, had proved that of five agents in racially torn Albany one was from New York, one from Massachusetts, one from Indiana, one from Minnesota, and one from Georgia. Then Hoover delivered the line that rang round the world. Said he of King: "He is the most notorious liar in the country...
...York City's Madison Square Garden, 18,000 clamorous fans gave him a roaring ovation for 28 minutes, interrupted his 35-minute speech more than 100 times with applause. In Cleveland's Public Hall, a near-capacity crowd of 15,000 yelled, screamed, honked horns and rang bells for eleven minutes before Barry finally got them quiet by holding up a silver pocket watch. In Pittsburgh, 15,000 jammed the Civic Arena, raised the roof for 19 minutes before letting the candidate open his mouth...
Police immediately threw up roadblocks, with no luck. The Chevy soon appeared, however, abandoned a block from the leftist-ridden Central University. Then, at 3:30 p.m., the phone rang in the Caracas office of the Associated Press. The F.A.L.N., said the caller, had Smolen. He would be released only when Nguyen Van Troi was released. And who is Nguyen Van Troi? He is the Viet Cong terrorist who was caught trying to assassinate U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara with a planted bomb in Saigon last May. Troi, 17, is sentenced to die this Thursday. If he is executed, warned...
...conservative philosophy. A man who says 'My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them'-that is not the language of a conservative. It is the language of nihilism. Nihilism is the politics of catastrophe." When he left Georgia, Hubert Humphrey's ears still rang with the sound of a standing ovation at a Deep Dixie center of learning...
...police cars. Rioters ran through the streets, shattered virtually every storefront window in a four-square-mile area. Looters dashed into the stores, grabbed racks of clothing, cases of liquor, groceries, furniture-anything they could move. They overturned cars, set fires, burned down a hat shop. Burglar alarms rang constantly...