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Sailing for Europe, Novelist John (The Short Reign of Pippin IV) Steinbeck did not yet know the happy news: the state of Oklahoma, which fussed and fumed at his portrait in The Grapes of Wrath of poverty-stricken Okies fleeing their drought-struck land, had at last forgiven him. After Steinbeck told an ABC-TV interviewer that "I've spoken against dust and I've spoken against poverty, but never against Oklahoma," Oklahoma's Governor Raymond Gary named him a member of the Governor's Staff of Oklahoma Boosters...
...Soviet tests (which one Japanese scientist declares to be more than twice as "dirty" as U.S. H-bomb explosions) temporarily focused Japanese wrath on Russia rather than Britain. The fallout, increased by a week-long drizzle of rain, was the heaviest ever recorded in Japan, and the government broadcast a warning: "Cover all open wells; do not drink rain water...
...Moralists who preached that the Lord's wrath had wiped out the sinful city were answered by a popular ditty: If, as they say, God spanked the town For being over-frisky, Why did he burn all the churches down And spare Hotaling's whiskey...
...story Kasper told the committee brought the wrath of his own faction down on him, but his activities have so far incurred no censure from the responsible citizens of Florida. Kasper admitted to a crime which is an affront to the segregationist ethic: he had danced, traveled, and corresponded with a Negro girls, whom he had met in his Greenwich Village bokstore: to the Ku Klux Klan, of course, all this equals miscegenation...
...history professor at Mississippi's 86-year-old Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, Clennon King, 36, was a constant irritant to the state-run Negro campus. A Tuskegee graduate with an M.A. from Western Reserve, he was often rude to his students. He also aroused the wrath of President J. R. Otis for his habit of writing letters to the press on issues of the day. Last week the Jackson State Times began publishing a series of articles by Professor King that threatened to blow little (561 students) Alcorn right out of existence...