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...into censoring her public comments about Viet Nam and the Bomb. But when she returned to San Francisco and called a press conference, all Joan wanted to talk about was love and peace. Newsmen persisted: What about those dark tales of CIA meddling? "We don't have a shred of evidence," admitted Joan's manager. Then the alleged interference hadn't hurt the tour? Said Joanie, with a Cheshire smile, "Obviously, it was enhanced by this...
...League of Nations' action against Mussolini was ignored from the beginning by half a dozen non-fascist nations-including the U.S. After eight fruitless months, the whole project was abandoned, leaving the Italian regime the stronger, and destroying the last shred of effectiveness of the League itself...
...contrast, said Black, the Florida law's words, "malicious and mischievous," narrowed its scope to one offense: willful trespass. Not only were the students guilty of just that, he said, but there was "not a shred of evidence" that the sheriff objected to their protest for any reason other than his legitimate concern for jail security. "Nothing in the Constitution of the United States," said Black, "prevents Florida from evenhanded enforcement of its general trespass statute . . . The state, no less than a private owner of property, has power to preserve the property under its control...
...more shove and we can get Britain back on course." It was a brave boast, but as Britons prepared to go to the polls for this week's general election, Tory Leader Ted Heath clearly needed to pull out all the stops. Nor was his claim without a shred of support. Britain's major opinion polls did, in fact, register a slight shift to the Conservatives, though hardly enough to slice significantly into the Labor Party's huge lead...
...nail her as a "security risk" for her various unsavory associations in the past, it seemed less and less likely that she would turn out to be any sort of Mata Hari, as Cardin had darkly suggested. The files of West German intelligence agencies turned up not the slightest shred of evidence that she had worked for the East. And in CBC radio and TV interviews, the heavily mascaraed East German refugee made it abundantly clear that there was no love lost between her and the Russians...