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...state and local elections, had already been slapped with a suit just 25 hours after Lyndon Johnson signed the act. Armed with a stack of memos, Katzenbach spent a full day conferring with his aides as the list of target counties grew from ten to 18 to 24, then shrank again. At first they marked Georgia's Sumter County for action, largely because of the recent demonstrations in Americus. But when fast-moving state officials sent Negro registrars to the town and in two days reported 647 Negro enrollments, Sumter was dropped. Alabama's Dallas County, home...
...March 11, a month before the invasion, Schlesinger was summoned to a meeting with the President in the Cabinet Room. "An intimidating group sat around the table ... I shrank into a chair at the far end of the table and listened in silence." Kennedy, Schlesinger writes, "insisted that the plans be drawn on the basis of no United States military intervention-a stipulation to which no one at the table made objection." Later, when the "only signal from the beach was a wail of S.O.S.s," the President, in his bedroom, "put his head into his hands and almost sobbed...
...hands of modern sculptors from Rodin to Lehmbruck, man's anatomy has shrunk as if he were being returned to dust. But no one has reduced the image of man to such near nothingness as Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti. During the 1940s, his sculptures shrank so much that he carried the results of four years' work in six matchboxes in his pocket; and since then, try as he may, his lovely, attenuated figures still look like fugitives from a cane gang. Inevitably, Giacometti's search for essentials gave his work a lean and existential look, leading Jean...
...cancer. Later he inserted the liquid nitrogen probe deep into the tissue. In each of three required operations, the tissues were frozen and allowed to thaw. The patient complained of only a mild burning sensation that lasted a few hours after each treatment. In three weeks, the cancer shrank to the size of a small...
Flying on to India, the travelers heard the other side of the India-Pakistan dispute from diminutive Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri. He called Indian relations with Red China "as bad as they can be," but advocated Peking's admission to the U.N. and shrank from endorsing the U.S. position in Viet Nam. He also discussed India's gravest problems-economic stagnation and inadequate food. When asked what his country was doing about its population explosion, Shastri smiled: "I hesitate to give advice because I have six children myself...