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While police officials charged the students with starting the spasm of gunfire, the fact that no fire-arms could be found among the students belied their accusation. That two of the dead and scores of the wounded were shot in the back added telling footnotes to the incident. The presence on campus of SNCC organizer Cleveland Sellers gave South Carolina Governor Robert E. McNair the excuse he needed for the police action...
...Russians came to the U.S. But as a symbol of U.S.-Russian cooperation, the reciprocal flight should eventually stimulate two-way traffic on the bridges the U.S. is trying to build with Eastern Europe. Best guess is that the new service will be under way, barring some unforeseen spasm in U.S.-Soviet relations, by early spring...
Emotionally estranged from Regina and sick of the family's vulpine itch for plunder, Horace stubbornly refuses The play reaches its melodramatic peak when Horace suffers a heart spasm and pleads pitifully for his medicine. Regina lets him die without blinking an eye lash. That scene is still as chilling a moment of theater as it was when Tallulah Bankhead played the role (her finest...
...Obstacle. The cold war, says Halle, was a sharp spasm in the world balance of power, caused by Russia's overexpansion into Europe at the end of World War II. Just as Napoleon's France and the Germanys of Kaiser Wilhelm and Adolf Hitler had upset the power balances of the past, Stalin's push into the vacuum after 1945 precipitated years of struggle to restore the balance. As Halle sees it, the Allies largely had themselves to blame. "It would have been better in the two World Wars," he writes, "if the restoration of a balance...
When Washington makes major economic moves, Wall Street responds with a spasm of stock trading. Last week, at President Johnson's call to restore tax credits for business investment, the market churned through its most frenzied day in 37 years. When it was all over, stocks made only modest gains, but volume on the New York Stock Exchange ballooned to 14.9 million shares, second only to the 16.41 million shares traded on Oct. 29, 1929. The Big Board's two-year-old high-speed ticker, which flashes stock transactions as fast as the human eye can read, fell...