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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overalls & Ivy. Even so, as of 7:30 on the morning of the great day, there were probably more cops than marchers on the assembly grounds around the Washington Monument. The District of Columbia's police chief, Robert V. Murray, had assembled a force of 5,900 men -including 350 club-carrying firemen, 1,700 National Guardsmen and 300 newly sworn-in police reserves. At nearby bases, 4,000 soldiers and marines were ready to cross the Potomac in helicopters if they were needed for riot duty...
...Named to Kefauver's Appropriations Committee post was Wisconsin Democrat William V. Proxmire, an unorthodox liberal who called the appointment "a golden opportunity to keep federal spending down...
...Brazil's biggest cocoa port, some 180 stevedores were in the seventh week of a strike called to increase the size and pay of stevedore gangs that load cocoa aboard ships. The demands would raise the handling cost for a ton of cargo to $49 (v. $12 in New York) and price Brazil's cocoa right out of world markets...
...Morocco, and Lalla Latifa, 19, Hassan's only "royal spouse" (though not his queen, since Moslem custom bars women from such status): their second child, first son and heir to the troubled throne; in Rabat, Morocco. Name: Sidi Mohammed, after Hassan's father, the late Mohammed V...
...Swiss dodge is not new to Italian investors, but they have never used it in such numbers. In this year's first half, $976 million in lire re-entered Italy in disguised form v. $435 million for 1962's first half-and authorities can only guess at how much has not yet completed the round-trip journey. In a nation in which only 1,194,328 of 53 million people filed tax returns last year, this tax dodge is generally admired rather than deplored...