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...Action. With President Johnson a seeming cinch to lead the Democratic Party's campaign in 1964, most newspapers went elephant hunting-and found plenty of game. Columnist Roscoe Drummond reignited the torch that he has been carrying all fall. "The unresolved question" about Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam, wrote Drummond, "is not whether Mr. Lodge is going to resign his ambassadorship and become an open, active and campaigning candidate for the nomination-but when." In some quarters, added Drummond hopefully, Lodge was considered "a more formidable contender" than Nixon, Goldwater or Scranton...
...torch, then ashes soon...
...late President taken in 1960 by News Photographers Daniel Jacino and Arthur Sasse. But most papers were waiting for special book productions of the two wire services. Before year's end, announced the Associated Press, it would be out with a hardcover, 100-page book, The Torch Is Passed, with pictures by A.P. and text by a quartet of A.P. newsmen. Price: $2. United Press International joined hands with American Heritage and Simon & Schuster in the production of another book, Four Days, which will be published in January. Advance orders have reached...
Castroite terrorists have long made targets of Americans in Venezuela. In the past year the Castroite F.A.L.N. has bombed U.S. oil pipelines, set fire to U.S.-owned warehouses and stores, once boldly invaded the U.S. military mission and then put the place to the torch. "If the military advisers do not go home," warned the F.A.L.N. in a letter to the U.S. embassy, "Americans in Venezuela are going to be attacked." Last week the F.A.L.N. added kidnaping to its list of anti-American capers...
...over West Germany, ceremonies marked the 25th anniversary of Kristallnacht (Night of Crystal), when Hitler's Storm Troopers went on a nationwide rampage against the property, dignity and life of the 400,000 Jews who had not yet fled their German homeland. Synagogues were put to the torch. Thousands of Jewish stores were plundered and had their windows smashed (hence the night's bitter nickname). Thirty-six Jews were murdered and 25,000 arrested...