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Flying Squads. Last week some 300 union sympathizers, carrying signs in Spanish, BRACERO, PIDE TU LIBERTAD, staged a sitdown demonstration in front of one bracero camp to prevent the workers from going to the fields. At another camp, 38 pickets beat up the camp cook and two braceros with broom handles, threatened to set fire to the camp. The melee was broken up by a flying squad from the sheriff's office, which later stormed into a meeting at union headquarters and arrested six union leaders. Armed with shotguns and pistols, growers prowled their fields on the lookout...
Marriage Revealed. Margaret Wright Bedford Bancroft, 28, dazzling blonde lioness of the undergo international set, Standard Oil (N.J.) millionheiress and partypatetic hostess (sitdown dinner for 60); and Prince Charles d'Arenberg, 55, scion of one of France's first families, whom Peggy once dubbed "my little mouse"; she for the second time, he for the first; in Massachusetts...
...presidential campaign, are working hard to counter anti-Catholic feeling and to offset Republicans in the booming Piedmont cities and in the western mountain counties. The Democrats have sent in Harry Truman to talk common sense to his fellow Baptists, have shown the Kennedy Houston film three times. A sitdown by old-line Democrats could throw it to Nixon. UNPREDICTABLE...
...cankerous, six-year war in Algeria. French priests have denounced the atrocities and torture committed by the French army; conservative intellectuals like Author Francois Mauriac protested the French treatment of rebel prisoners and demanded an end to the war; reservists called to the ranks have on occasion staged sitdown strikes in railroad stations or engaged in brief mutinies. Last week murmurous dissent erupted in the most conspicuous display since Charles de Gaulle took power...
...Bread Alone (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.)* A report on lunch counter sitdown demonstrations and store boycotts in the South...