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...birth of a two-party system in the state would divide the conservative white vote." Governor Ross Barnett shouted: "I'm fed up with these fence-riding, pussyfooting, snow-digging Yankee Republicans." And U.S. Senator John Stennis said that Mississippi Democrats must "get out and vote and thwart this challenge brought on by the Republicans...
...prompted Kennedy to make the surprise announcement, in his United Nations address, that the U.S. was ready to make Project Apollo a joint East-West effort. Yuri Gagarin, also speaking at the U.N., has since expressed his government's willingness to join in a co-operative venture. To thwart this move the House has passed an amendment to the space appropriations bill forbidding all space expenditures should the moon program pass out of strict U.S. control. Fortunately this measure, which took the Administration by surprise, is not likely to pass or even reach the Senate...
...worker, and control computers can make decisions in one three-billionth of a second. To gasps from the audience, Wilson turned on the trade union leaders who have tried to prevent automation: "We have no room for Luddites in the Labor Party."* The answer, he declared, is not to thwart technological progress but to keep pace with it by providing 10 million new jobs in the next decade. Said he: "These facts put the whole argument about industry and socialism in new perspective...
Spoon River. There are three fixed ideas that Americans like to entertain about small towns: 1) they are bucolically idyllic, 2) they stunt, thwart and twist people's lives, 3) they harbor an incredible amount of sexual hanky-panky behind their primly drawn curtains. If any one book by any one man may be said to have fostered these notions, it is Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, which first appeared in 1915. Masters, who died in 1950 at the age of 81, was a Chicago lawyer-turned-poet who had grown up in Petersburg and Lewistown...
Lawyers for John W. Perdew '64 and three other students imprisoned in Americus, Ga., will file a suit today in a Federal District Court charging a "conspiracy" among state and local officials to thwart the desegregation campaign in Americus...