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...heckle Republican Mayor William Walsh during his 1964 re-election campaign, used poverty funds to bail out demonstrators. When their funds ran out, they sent a 25-man delegation to besiege Shriver for more, and when he turned them down, they went to the White House in a vain attempt to see Lyndon Johnson. Some of the same people were in the audience last month when Shriver, addressing a convention of an independent group called the Citizens Crusade Against Poverty, was shouted down by hecklers...
...funeral of Michigan's Senator Patrick McNamara in Detroit. After he had returned to the White House, some 500 heads turned, searching for some sign-any sign-of presidential wrath, when Senator William Fulbright made his way through the receiving line at a diplomatic reception. They searched in vain. Indeed, Johnson all but hugged his arch-critic, clasping his shoulders, squeezing elbow, patting arm. "I read Bill's speech on the arrogance of power, and I analyzed it," he said to Fulbright's wife. "You don't have to worry about the arrogance of power when...
...Crimson lost two matches on the 18th green and one on the 19th, and those three turned the tide for the Elis. Two Harvard golfers carved their best scores all year out of the rolling fairways and tricky greens of Yale Golf Course. But it was all in vain...
...doesn't know you," refused to let Danny see Wolfson. In vain, Wolfson cited an Illinois statute that guarantees such consultation "except in cases of imminent danger of escape...
...acerbic legal dustup, Ernest Hemingway's widow Mary tried in vain to enjoin publication of this book, contended that A. E. Hotchner had appropriated literary material that rightfully belonged to her as Hemingway's beneficiary, and accused Hotchner of "shameless penetration into my private life and the usurpation of it for money" (TIME, Feb. 11). Hotchner certainly will make money from this book: serialization rights were sold to the Saturday Evening Post for about $50,000, it is a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and, with 60,000 copies in print, it is clearly destined...