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Inferior Lizard. As the Klan's high mugwumps fidgeted through four days of congressional catechism in the old House Caucus Room last week, they resorted to the same Pavlovian routine of pious nonresponse as their avowed archfoes the Communists. The Klan's chief panjandrum, Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton, 36, probably challenged the Communist record before the same committee by taking the First, Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments a total of 158 times in two days, invoking the mumbled formula: "I respectably decline to answer that question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Dark Days in Weird Week | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

Among the gilt mirrors and airy hangings of Marlborough House, it seemed a wizard idea: Something should be Done about Viet Nam. The 21 delegations gathered in London last week for the 14th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference overwhelmingly approved the notion. But in the execution, it proved a bit more complex. The plan was to send a five-nation team, headed by Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, to Hanoi, Saigon, Peking, Moscow and Washington to seek a way to end the war. The team's spread of political ideologies, ranging from the demagogic leftism of Ghana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Commonwealth: Foggy Day in Londontown | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

What is Nike-X? Is it, as might be supposed, a wizard new missile that can seek out and destroy hostile incoming ICBMs? No. It is rather an anti-missile "system," with the most important parts on (or under) the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: The $25 Billion Question | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

There were 54 items to check from his flight-plan list, and it was painfully slow going. White began to perspire heavily; almost every drop of sweat was noted by Houston's wizard gear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Closing the Gap | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...respected record of public service; the soft-spoken prosecutor, Circuit Solicitor Arthur E. Gamble Jr., 45; the melodramatic defense attorney, Matt H. Murphy Jr., 51, self-described "Imperial Klonsel" of the Ku Klux Klan; the defendant himself, a bored auto mechanic, potbellied despite his youth; Robert Shelton, Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, who sat at the defense table providing moral support and advice until the judge requested him to take a seat elsewhere; and the two key prosecution witnesses-Negro Leroy Moton, 20, who was riding in the car with Viola Liuzzo on the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabama: The Trial | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

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