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...little vituperation has been heard recently about the Southern plot to undo what the electorate fashioned (albeit inconclusively) on November 8. For Republicans in Illinois and Texas to seek through investigation to uncover frauds is one, perfectly legitimate thing. But for Ross Barnett and his henchmen to seek through persuasion and even intimidation to make pledged electors break their pledges is another, entirely reprehensible matter...
...Congo's chaotic political climate, communications are so bad that not a single official item of information on births, deaths and disease has been reaching the central government at Léopoldville. As beleaguered U.N. medics struggled to undo the damage wrought by the Belgians' abrupt departure, the job still looked almost hopeless. Said one U.N. doctor: "It is inconceivable that such a breakdown in health services should occur in the 20th century. The Congo is just a few months short of returning to a medieval health pattern...
...Premiers office. For the United Nations, all this was a venture into uncharted political water, far beyond anything that its original architects had envisioned. In just one new nation, 16,000 troops and millions of dollars were committed to keeping order, handling all the household problems, and trying to undo the actions of the Premier who had invited the U.N. into the country in the first place. With more countries getting independence nearly every month, Dag Hammarskjold might well wonder where it all would...
...horse, a rat have life and thou no breath at all?" In the extremity of human despair ("Thou'lt come no more") he utters his towering, fivefold "Never, never, never, never, never!" Then the dam of his unbearable anguish breaks with the homely request, "Pray you undo this button." No one but Shakespeare would have dared put those two lines together; no one but Shakespeare could...
...have come upon a copy of a new book by Senator Barry Goldwater called The Conscience of a Conservative. I cannot accurately convey to you the shock I experienced at reading a series of proposals which would undo every important social advance in this country over the past 50 years...