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...Politician Almond cannot always afford the judicial view. Sworn to a no-surrender policy against integration, he can fan dangerous emotions with the best of demagogues, warning that the Supreme Court will soon "make it lawful for a Negro to intermarry with a white person," describing civil rights programs as "ribald, unconstitutional, politically designed, cheap and tawdry" or "communistically conceived and sponsored...
...carloads of flatfeet had raided the nudists' camp, "descending upon these unsuspecting souls like storm troopers, herding them before clicking cameras like plucked chickens." It was "indecent-indeed the one big indecency we can find in this whole case," and the "final irony" came when a warrant was sworn out that one of the cops was "the aggrieved victim of an indecent exposure. It seems that we are now prepared to burn down the house of constitutional safeguards in order to roast a few nudists. I will have none...
...Cabinet-the first in more than a year to command a clear majority in Parliament-is headed by 57-year-old Socialist Karl August Fagerholm, a former barber and longtime boss of the Finnish State Alcohol Monopoly. Scarcely had Fagerholm been sworn in when he 1) stepped up negotiations for a $50 million World Bank loan, and 2) insisted that Moscow call off the projected visit to Finland of Old Bolshevik Otto Kuusinen, Helsinki-born member of the Russian Party Presidium and father of Finnish Communist Party Leader Hertta Kuusinen. From across the Russian border that runs just 40 miles...
...measuring of never-known-before statistics went on without letup. The water temperature at the North Pole, Nautilus found, was 32°F. The sea depth there was 13,410 ft., exactly 1,927 ft. deeper than previously estimated. An electrician's mate first class was sworn in for re-enlistment-the first man, the Navy pointed out, who had ever re-enlisted at the North Pole. Eleven new crewmen got their qualification on nuclear submarines. And as they headed on from the Pole, the 116 crewmen-the most men ever assembled at the North Pole at one time...
...Baghdad Pact is no longer what it was now that its only Arab affiliate, Iraq, will probably soon opt out. In some ways the Northern Tier alliance is tidier. Even Israel should be less troubled by an agreement that will no longer deliver arms to an Arab nation sworn to wipe out Israel. (Shortly before the coup, the U.S. delivered five jets to Iraq.) But the remaining members of the pact-Britain, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan-were shaken by Iraq's defection, and the Moslem nations in particular demanded dramatic proof of U.S. support...