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...Freeman himself practically tore the Minnesota delegation apart to go for Kennedy-and seriously endangered his own prospects for re-election this fall...
...rural sorceress to whom people come for advice on marriage and business. This particular miko had a large following of women in what the Japanese politely call "the water trades"-prostitutes, bar hostesses, geishas. The miko told them to worship the Eight Dragon God at the Ryusenji Temple. That tore it. Last week at Ryusenji, 200 dignitaries, headed by the Governor of Nara, chanted sutras and presented altar lilies to the brand-new vermilion temple, which was being dedicated to replace the old one, burned down in 1946. And 500 women arrived in buses and uprooted the stone tablet forbidding...
Disaster would not leave Chile alone. Attempting to placate the gods they held responsible for the continuing quakes in southern Chile, Mapuche Indians last week beat a six-year-old boy to death with sticks, tore out his heart and offered it to the sea. When police arrested two of the Indians, they explained: "We were asking for calm in the sea and on the earth...
...Hagerty into Tokyo by car instead of in the helicopter that stood ready at the international airport. MacArthur's explanation: As a test for Ike, "we had to find out just how far the mob would go." They found out when Zengakuren students mobbed MacArthur's limousine, tore off the American flag and forced Hagerty & Co. to retreat to the helicopter (TIME, June...
...them," he declared in his first post-revolutionary speech last wreek, "that they could save themselves only if they followed several steps I pointed out to them." Instead, some months ago. Gursel received orders retiring him as commander of Turkish ground forces before normal retirement age. The general promptly tore the orders up and returned the pieces to the defense ministry. But three wreeks ago, with retirement age upon him, Gursel went on "terminal leave...