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...Johnson; while Romney has maintained a more equivocal--and often meandering--attitude toward his party Presidential nominee. Last May, before the California primary, Romney promised to have nothing to do with a "stop-anyone movement"; within two weeks, he was breaking his well-publicized ban on Sunday politicking to stir up just such a movement. It seems that the Governor had just seen some polls giving President Johnson 70 per cent of Michigan's vote against Goldwater in Michigan...
...original reason for our following the colored men was because we heard that Martin Luther King might make Georgia a testing ground for the civil rights bill. We thought some out-of-town niggers might stir up some trouble in Athens. We had intended scaring off any out-of-town colored people before they could give us any trouble. When the car from Washington was spotted on July 11, we thought they might be out-of-towners who might cause trouble...
...American public-school children bustled into classrooms for the 1964-65 term. Having obstreperously demanded more integration and better schools in boycotts and demonstrations over the past year, responsible Negroes are now mostly satisfied with quiet but significant improvements all over the country-and they do not want to stir up more white resentment before the election. Among Negroes, the word is to "cool it"; the protests over integration are coming from whites...
Where once they had only to pass a plate among Sunday attenders, churches nowadays raise money in ways that range from bingo to bonds. Fund raising brings up questions of taste, discretion, prudence and donor psychology that stir heated debates across the land. TIME correspondents, sampling opinion among churchgoers and ministers last week, found that the "crasser" gimmicks of fund raising are giving way, but only slowly, to various forms of direct donation...
...Lima, Savoy's find created the greatest stir among archaeologists since the discovery of Machu Picchu. "Although we have yet to explore the ruins carefully," said Dr. Luis E. Valcarcel, director of the National Museum of History, "I am almost certain this is Vilcabamba." Peru's President Fernando Belaunde Terry, himself an ardent amateur archaeologist, chatted with Savoy about possible government help for a full-scale return expedition...