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...world's most powerful army, Khrushchev would be crying disarmament. He would undoubtedly be heard deploring the Congo chaos, though his goal in the Congo, as Secretary Herter also told the A.B.A., is the "collapse of order.'' Washington expected Khrushchev, just before or after his spell in the U.S., to visit the Cuba of U.S.-hating Fidel Castro, who last week told a mob he was now planning to recognize Communist China...
Protection's Hint. Throughout his speech, Kennedy kept his audience of 5,000 listeners rooted to their seats, and some veteran reporters forgot to take notes. Not until he finished was there a great burst of applause and a surge toward the candidate. The Kennedy spell-which he had promised would be cast again, once he had shaken off the legislative frustrations of Washington-was working. It had been that way, increasingly, since Jack Kennedy left Washington and its disappointments behind him the previous day. Barnstorming through his native New England, he encountered larger and more enthusiastic crowds...
After Maine and New Hampshire, Kennedy raced west in his chartered jet clipper Caroline*to California and Alaska, then headed back to Detroit for the traditional Labor Day speech in Cadillac Square. New England reassured him that the spell was still working. "I am going to carry the campaign to all parts of the United States," he said in San Francisco, "in order to show that this country cannot afford four more years of Republican leadership." Jack Kennedy was off at last, and running hard...
...Orval Faubus' Arkansas, still be clouded by the storms that Faubus stirred up in Little Rock three years ago, it is a big and scary decision for a school board to assign a Negro pupil to an all-white school. Last week, after a long spell of foot dragging, the Dollarway school board at the segregationist stronghold of Pine Bluff (pop. 40,000) got up its nerve, and in minimum compliance with a 1959 federal court order, hand-picked six-year-old Delores Jean York, daughter of a Negro mill hand, to enter the first grade...
...Germans made an elevenmile pilgrimage to the onetime concentration camp at Dachau, where Munich's Bishop Johannes Neuhaeusler, a former inmate, dedicated a chapel to Christ's agony (a jarring note was the appearance of Hitler's financial wizard, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, who did a brief spell in Dachau himself...