Word: shocks
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...heroes. Bull Connor was by no means Birmingham's only shame; the city's newspapers, for example, put the story of the midweek riot on an inside page (see PRESS). Yet at the same time, Negro Leader King could be criticized for using children as shock troops and for inciting the protests even as a new, relatively moderate city administration was about to take over Birmingham. President Kennedy also came in for criticism. At his press conference, Kennedy claimed that the Federal Government had done all it legally could do about Birmingham. But that, insisted other leaders, both...
...white twelve-room hacienda. They were isolated from the rest of the world except for a single radiotelephone circuit. Critical Clergymen. Meanwhile, away from the ranch, there was continued criticism of the wedding, especially by clergymen. Declared Philadelphia's Methodist Bishop Fred Pierce Corson: "It is an appalling shock to the moral sensibilities and sense of fair play of the rank and file of Americans." Stepping out of his field, he predicted that the marriage could cost Rockefeller "three to five million votes" if he becomes the Republican nominee for President. Said Dr. Daniel A. Poling, editor...
...France cannot possibly accept this British behavior." But the shock waves have spread far beyond the Common Market. Britain, which only four months ago had such faith in Europe that it was ready to sunder its ties with the Commonwealth and with the European Free Trade Association, had to swallow its pride in Lisbon last week and make a desperate effort even to keep EFTA together at its first top-level meeting since February. The reason is that Britain's government has accepted the fact that it will probably not enter Europe during De Gaulle's lifetime...
...summation at the end of the trial, the government newspaper Izvestia appeared in the courtroom reporting his demand for punishment: a death sentence for Penkovsky and ten years in jail for Wynne. The military tribunal retired to confer, then passed judgment. Penkovsky's mouth dropped open in shock when the verdict was announced. He would be shot; Wynne would do eight years in jail...
...party 730,000 votes and may well cost him his job. The apertura might survive, but its future-like Fanfani's-would be riskier than ever. Ashen-faced, the pint-size (5 ft. 1 in.) Premier faced reporters in the Chigi Palace on election night with uncommon shock. "The Christian Democrats,'' he declared, "have been declared as the relative majority party, even if by a narrower margin than before...