SENATOR ROBERT KENNEDY visited South Africa and denounced apartheid :
back in the United States, the first Negro to enrol at the Mississippi university, James Meredith, was wounded in a shotgun attack. The Germans were worried about the well-being of a white whale which has turned up in the Rhine. The West Indies defeated England in the first Test of the series. and The Times noted that at Eton on the Fourth of June the hair of recent old boys was longer than ever before, and the skirts of their girl friends shorter. London's taximen prepared a one-day strike next week as a protest against the growth of minicab competition. Lord Moran tried once more to defend his book about Sir Winston Churchill, and got another buffeting from Sir Winston's friends; Jean Arp died, aged seventy-eight; a four-pound meteor- ite hit a Kent house; and the Cairo paper Al Akhbar reported that in the Gulf of Suez a school of dolphins rescued a drowning man attacked by sharks and carried him to safety on their backs.
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