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THERE was a new stir around Florida's Cape Canaveral, in U.S. missileland. On the hot, palmetto-studded beach, Photographer Stan Wayman, on assignment for TIME, set up his camera, trained its long telescopic lens in the direction of four gantry towers two miles away, and waited. The wait turned into a monotonous, week-long vigil. The monotony was relieved by the arrival of his wife with an ice chest and a bottle of champagne. It was the Waymans' seventh anniversary; they celebrated it on the beach...
...often confused and mistaken." From last week's scare, the Blade was able to add a new argument for holding to its policy. "As all of us have seen," said the editorial, racial identification in a crime story "clearly plays into the hands of those who would stir up animosity...
...difficulty with negotiating with Russia about the Middle East is the assumption that the Communists and the West have the same objective there-namely, peace. Russia's hope is that if it cannot dominate the Middle East, it can at least stir up profitable trouble there...
Racist John Kasper, of New Jersey, though attracting only small crowds, was in town to stir up as much mischief as he could. Parents of six of the 13 Negro children got threatening phone calls. One caller told a mother that her six-year-old daughter would be strung up by her toes. Someone told another mother that acid would be hurled at her son. Said a woman who identified herself as a "Ku Kluxer": "You'd better not send your child to a white school, because we'll beat her to death and bomb your house...
Salon later that year, it won a medal of honor, but caused no public stir, appealed to no collector. Hoping for a buyer, Painter Chabas shipped the picture to the U.S. There the unhoped-for happened. It came to the attention of bewhiskered Anthony Comstock, self-appointed monitor of U.S. morals...