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Syndicated Columnist Inez Robb has been content to leave such lofty matters as "world peace, the Good Neighbor policy, nuclear supremacy and the stabilization of the dollar" to colleagues of a more cosmic stripe. Mrs. Robb usually sights in on humbler game: highway billboards, women in slacks, unhygienic rest rooms...
...late, she has turned her feminine fire on extremists of the far ideological right. Last week Columnist Robb discovered to her surprise that her most recent crusade contained a built-in booby trap. For daring to impugn the rectitude of the right in a luncheon speech, Columnist Robb was tossed out of her room at the Camelback Inn near Phoenix, Ariz.-typewriter, white gloves, husband...
...eviction was not without its comic aspects. After checking into the Camelback, a palmy desert spa usually inhabited by wealthy oldsters, Columnist Robb was somewhat amused to find her room fitted out not with the usual Gideon Bible but with a collection of anti-Communist pamphlets...
...read the good old Gideon Bible for 30 years." says Mrs. Robb. "But there was no Bible. Only the Gospel by Dr. Fred Schwarz. On balance. I think the King James version is to be preferred...
Inspired by this discovery, and by the hotel library's "freedom shelf." full of even more vehement anti-Communist literature. Mrs. Robb switched the text of her speech next day before the Arizona Association of Deans of Women in the Camelback's Peace Pipe Room. There she let feminine wrath get the better of her good sense, described "those on the far right" as "fascists who don't want to pay taxes." After her talk she found herself involved in an emotion-charged argument with the family of the Camelback's vehemently anti-Communist Proprietor Jack...