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Across the U.S., most ban-the-bomb groups seemed simply dispirited. Thirty motorists in Boston turned on their headlights, followed a black station wagon filled with flowers through downtown Boston in a mock funeral staged by two women's peace groups. About 20 pickets huddled at Chicago's Congress and Michigan Avenues under a banner proclaiming: "Nuclear Tests Threaten Mankind." Admitted their leader: "It's awfully hard to keep up a sustained campaign." In Washington, Nobel Chemist Linus Pauling was among marchers outside the White House...
...Missed Wagon. A.D.A. was founded in 1947 as a camp of non-Communist liberalism, in opposition to the Red-riddled popular front built around Presidential Hopeful Henry A. Wallace. But the following year the Wallace movement vanished like smoke in a windstorm, depriving A.D.A. of its original reason for being. In 1948, before the Democratic Convention, A.D.A. rooted against Harry Truman; some prominent A.D.A. members, including Chester Bowles and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., called for a Democratic ticket headed by General Dwight Eisenhower, then a political enigma. But after getting re-elected in 1948, Truman deprived A.D.A of the pleasures...
...Cambridge police arrested a -year-old boy last evening, who just like fighting with the police," according to a police department spokesman. An observer in front of where the battle occurred "he popped a cop in the nose and quickly popped in a paddy-wagon ." An estimated 125 observed...
...high blood pressure and a heart condition. Moscow rumors persist that he suffered a stroke in recent months; twice, after absences that were officially attributed to flu, Nikita has himself told friends that he suffered a more serious ailment. He has markedly curtailed his social calendar, is on the wagon and a strict diet, and at diplomatic functions seldom seems compelled these days to act the life and soul of the Party...
...hundred freshman in Holworthy, Thayer, and Stoughton Halls responded to the HSA goody man's cry of "Food!" with a tumult of their own last night. Yelling from windows and beaming two blinding spotlights on the salesman, the hungry Yardlings descended on the little red wagon en masse. Five of the eager eaters were relieved of their bursar's cards...