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...began to air his views, Johnson pointedly turned to Rusk and chatted away intently, completely ignoring the Senator. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen said he would support whatever course the President decided upon, but declined to make any judgment himself because "I don't like to have the sidewalk fly up and hit me in the face." His refusal to take a stand was elemental politics; by leaving the choice to the President, he also left the G.O.P. free to criticize Johnson, no matter what he did. Even so, Johnson was so delighted by his old friend...
...Seville, bull breeders in flat-brimmed hats still sip cognac in sidewalk cafés, and aging horses still pull ancient carriages along streets lined with orange trees toward the world's largest Gothic cathedral. But across the Guadalquivir, tens of thousands of spinning bobbins turn raw cotton and wool into finished fabric in one of Europe's largest textile plants. In the main square of Cordoba, an Arab caliphate for 250 years, a transcribed electric guitar chimes the hour in flamenco rhythm. In Bilbao, shipyards work round the clock to keep pace with orders for merchant vessels...
...Amintore Fanfani, off in New York greeting the Pope, making speeches and generally cutting a bella figura as the first of his nation to be honored with the presidency of the U.N. General Assembly. Then-omen of trouble-came the first slip: he fell on an icy New York sidewalk, mildly injuring...
Pickets began to assemble in front of the White House about 11 a.m. By noon there were knots of demonstrators on every sidewalk within two blocks of the White House, and by 1 p.m., a circle of marchers had completely surrounded the ellipse in front of the Washington monument...
Keep Moving. Last week the Supreme Court confronted a loitering conviction that Shuttlesworth earned in 1962 when a Birmingham cop ordered him and his companions to move along. "You mean to say we can't stand here on the sidewalk?" asked Shuttlesworth. "Yes," said the cop. As the others dispersed, Shuttlesworth walked into a store, where the cop arrested him for blocking the sidewalk outside. A nonjury trial netted Shuttlesworth a sentence of 241 days at hard labor...