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...Army to lead peace demonstrations. "I have known both sides, and the war in Viet Nam is of no interest to the United States," declared Smith, a ten-year Army veteran. He was returning home, he said, "so Americans can see the light about the war." McClure, a six-year veteran, told how the Viet Cong had healed his wounded leg. "Had it been the Saigon government, I would have been tortured," he said...
Cause to Be Won. Thus, though Slick Burns seemed assured of a six-year reign when he was elected to a special two-year term last year,* his chances for re-election now seem to be seriously in doubt. Last week a campaign was under way to draft former (1955-61) Governor LeRoy Collins, 56, for the Democratic nomination. A rigorous, statesmanlike administrator who man aged to minimize racial friction during his crucial six years in the Statehouse (including the two-year unexpired term of a Governor who died in office), Collins later headed the Federal Community Relations Service, which...
...early 1900s, but later established herself as one of the leading musicians of her day, bringing graceful proportion and artistry to the works of Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms, during World War II earned the admiration of blitz-weary Londoners and the Order of Dame Commander for inaugurating a six-year series of noontime concerts in the National Gallery; of a heart attack; in London...
After Oregon's Richard Neuberger died in 1960, his vivacious wife Maurine ran for his U.S. Senate seat and easily won herself a full six-year term. Hardly as controversial as her husband, she performed unspectacularly for a couple of years as the Senate's Other Woman, its Democratic opposite number to Maine Republican Margaret Chase Smith...
...Rights." It is the first permanent home of the European Court of Human Rights, and the festivities were no sooner over than the court faced up to a judicial Everest: ruling on the language rights of northern Belgium's French-speaking minority. In the third case of its six-year history, the court's decision may also determine whether the court itself lives or dies...