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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hardest hit by the drought are the farmers of the New Territories, who desperately need spring rains to save their rice and vegetable crops. Those farmers who own wells padlock them at night to foil water thieves. At week's end, the shortage had grown so serious that ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet were ordered to cease taking on potable water in Hong Kong "to avoid further drain on the local water supply...
...squad cars, sirens blaring, rushed into the area. Two policemen grabbed a Negro, shoved him against a storefront-and found themselves caught inside a glowering circle of 300 Negroes. A voice growled menacingly: "Let's free him." But demonstration leaders quickly broke into the circle and managed to save the policemen. The riot ebbed-and then, an hour later, exploded again. In Kelly Ingram Park, hundreds of Negroes began lobbing bricks and bottles at the lawmen. A deputy sheriff fell to the pavement, shouting "Those black apes!" For two hours, the battle raged, but slowly, inexorably, in trucks...
...typical morning last week, the President at: 9:30 a.m. Pinned American Automobile Association gold medals on seven boys and one girl, aged 11 to 15, who as members of school safety patrols had saved schoolmates or other persons from possible death or injury. He was "very proud" of them, the President said. 10 a.m. Met with 80 or so members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and their wives in the White House Rose Garden, managed to chuckle at 92 cartoons featuring John F. Kennedy, jokingly told the cartoonists that he is really "much thinner" and much less...
...Never Such a Budget." Cannon is a proud Democrat ("It's the party to save the country"), and he thinks well of John Kennedy ("I'm strong for him"). But those emotions did not curtail his criticism of the President's budget message last January. Said Cannon to his House colleagues: "I have listened to messages from Presidents here in the House for 40 years, but in all that time I have never seen or heard a budget message like this one. And neither have you. Nor has anyone else...
...paintings and drawings (all without a single human figure). Stoumen's cleverest stroke is the use of Kaulbach's illustrations for Goethe's fable of Reynard the Fox, making a neat allegory between the sly fox, who persuaded the king of the beasts that he could save the animal kingdom from the wicked wolf, and Adolf Hitler, who persuaded the aging Von Hindenburg that he could protect Germany from the threat of Stalin. The parallel perfidy of Reynard and Adolf, once they have seized power, falls almost too trickily into place, but the lesson is memorable...