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...lost touch with them, ignored them on federal patronage. Because he remained in Washington for the civil rights debate, Case has barely been able to campaign for the primary. One night last week, for example, Case flew into New York's La Guardia Airport at 8:50, sped off to a single political rally, hustled right back to catch an 11:30 plane out of La Guardia...
Roving police squads sped through the main streets of Cape Town itself, swinging sjamboks (leather whips) and grabbing "intimidators" who, according to Justice Minister François Erasmus, "stood at street corners giving certain signs" to keep Africans from going to work. Near Durban, African stay-at-homes stoned and beat other natives returning from work in town. Black police carrying Zulu-style shields and assagais (short spears), moved in, killing four and wounding...
...from their jobs in a city already partially paralyzed by lack of labor. In the countryside the entire citizens' defense force of 23,000 civilian reservists was alerted and 40% of its units put on active duty. Truckloads of skietkommandos, mostly young Boer farmers recruited from rifle clubs, sped through the Orange Free State to take up positions in strategic areas...
...White House limousine sped up Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol one day fortnight ago, carrying two presidential aides to a secret meeting in the office of North Dakota's Republican Senator Milton R. Young. Gathered for the meeting were G.O.P. wheat-state Senators, all of them unhappy about the farm message that President Eisenhower was scheduled to send to Congress that very day. The Senators had found in the advance text a lingering echo of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's crusading spirit, and they felt that, considering Benson's unpopularity in the farm belt, a gentler...
...wonderful to drive fast," said Camus gaily, "when one is not driving oneself." At 2 that afternoon, the car sped through the town of Villeneuve-la-Guyard, about 80 miles southeast of Paris. A few minutes later it lurched out of control, hurtled against one tree and smashed into another. When the police arrived, they found Gallimard fatally injured, his wife and daughter unconscious. In the back of the car, whose speedometer had stuck at 150 km. (94 m.p.h.), was the crushed and lifeless body of Albert Camus...