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Achilles' Heel. While such activities were not classifiably unAmerican, the Congressmen's well-documented attack on the Klan surprised many critics of the committee, which heretofore has focused its investigative zeal on left-wing groups. Its hostility to Klan witnesses was all the more noteworthy because the committee is dominated by Southerners and Republicans-seven of whom voted against House passage of the 1964 Civil Rights...
Nevertheless, as tangible evidence of the Klan's retaliatory zeal, the committee displayed a White Knights of Mississippi pamphlet that catalogues forms of harassment to be used on suspected foes. Among other tactics, it recommends pouring sugar into gasoline tanks, dumping snakes, dead rats or decapitated chickens into mailboxes. To "obscure the deadly seriousness of our work," the circular suggested, the Knights should refer to such ploys as "Halloween pranks"-enough, in Klan verbiage, to make any night Dark Day in Weird Week of Month Sorrowful...
...Opinions. Winship hotly refutes the contention that the Globe's zeal is due to anti-Kennedy feelings. "We've been damn good to the Kennedys," says he. "This was not an anti-Ted effort. I can't think of a thing we haven't supported him on except Morrissey." It was the Globe, to be sure, that first broke the story about Ted's expulsion from Harvard for cheating. But, as Winship points out, the story had full Kennedy cooperation, was printed only after the editor told one of J.F.K.'s presidential aides...
...same appetizing flavors may be found in Mr. Sloane, which comes to Broadway from London's West End. A tall blond young murderer takes lodgings with a middle-aged nymphomaniacal landlady. With lubricous zeal, she and her homosexual brother compete for the lodger's favors. When this impetuous tenant kills cranky old "Dadda," both brother and sister concoct a cover-up story about their father's murder and sign an agreement to share the killer's company...
...unify the Republicans, Nixon will have done plenty of thinking about it in advance. To say "Hatfield" in front of Nixon is like flipping the switch on a music box: "a national figue...political appeal...I think he's going to be elected to the Senate." But Nixon's zeal allows him to ignore, for example, an anti-Vietnam-war wind that blows in Oregon. (He looked at me aghast; "I haven't really studied Hatfield's views on Vietnam, but I hope they're not like Morse...