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Despite its diversity, life for a native of New Orleans is in fact like life in any other large town of the Deep South, and New Orleaneans are much like the townsfolk of other Deep South towns. They are conservative. On foreign policy they support the Administration's Vietnam stand. At home they oppose federal meddling, and on the racial question they are paranoid...
...specify murder-merely a conspiracy to deny the dead men their constitutional rights under a federal statute dating back to Reconstruction days. But the flag was a reminder that the Deep South never cottoned to such laws. Then one morning last week a barber slipped through the waiting townsfolk and somberly rolled up the flag: according to reports from the courtroom, the seven women and five men of the jury were bringing in guilty verdicts...
Even stolid Aleksei Kosygin must have been struck by the change from Glassboro, N.J., where his opposite number was earnestly conciliatory and the townsfolk were downright friendly...
L.B.J. himself grinned and waved back to the welcoming townsfolk, the tension draining from his face as the crowds' enthusiasm washed over him. But he said nothing on arrival. He had not come to New Jersey's Gloucester County last week to mine votes but to fulfill his familiar pledge to "seek peace, any time, any place...
Despite the humid 90° weather, more than 2,000 townsfolk had excitedly waited out the conference. Their hurrahs drew the normally reticent Russian out of his car after it had gone just a few hundred yards. Upstaging Johnson for the nonce, he shook hands, waved and cried: "I would like to thank you! There are many beautiful and wonderful things to be done!" Then the chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers headed down Route 322 for the 111-mile drive back to New York. He spent the day of Summit recess visiting Niagara Falls. Johnson headed for a political...