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Democrats in Washington happily interpreted Kefauver's lopsided victory as a sign that the strong Democratic platform plank on civil rights was not going to hurt them seriously, at least in the middle states. Added a pleased and triumphant Estes Kefauver: "It is clear that the detractors of the South, who tried to say we are a backward people, have been proven wrong...
...hard we put them ten feet underground, right off! If you boo us and attack us again, look out! We will hit you so hard there won't be a squeal out of you." Someone cried: "Is this a press conference or a propaganda meeting?" With a triumphant wave of his fist, Khrushchev shouted back: "Propaganda!" Then he toasted the crowd with a glass of mineral water and, winking jovially, called out his favorite French catch phrase: "Vive la paix...
Throughout the third straight week of martial law in Istanbul and Ankara, demonstrations burst out almost daily against Premier Adnan Menderes' government. They were not particularly large and nobody got killed, but their persistence argued that the ruling Democrats, triumphant in three elections since 1950, were slipping in popular esteem. Even President Celal Bayar was worried enough to urge Menderes to consider seeking peace with the opposition Republicans. But the Premier was still tough. Cried Menderes, in a speech at Izmir: "These street demonstrations of children will not make me resign." This week, to get the children...
...Welch (pop. 6,500): "I think he's stronger than Kennedy. He's more what the little people, like me, want-somebody who can help us out of this." Said Humphrey of his reception in the string of coal towns: "I felt like Caesar-one long triumphant procession...
...remarkable degree Paul had the grace-especially needed by a missionary -to keep his heart in heaven and his feet firmly planted on the ground. In / Corinthians, after his wise and tolerant sermon on the diversity of spiritual gifts, after his famed passage on love and a triumphant challenge to death ("Where is thy sting?"), he ends with a matter-of-fact "Now concerning the collection...