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...Washington Congressmen from all sections of the nation expressed their anger, though only one Southerner did so publicly. "I abhor this brutality," cried Texas Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough. "Shame on you, George Wallace, for the wet ropes that bruised the muscles, for the bullwhips that cut the flesh, for the clubs that broke the bones, for the tear gas that blinded, burned and choked into insensibility...
...State Department should stop kidding benevolent American taxpayers--to whom we owe our sincere gratitude--into believing that it is combating Communism in Africa. The U.S. government is only massacring Africans who never heard of Communism nor are even threatened by Communism. We loathe Communism as much as we abhor U.S. military intervention in African affairs. However, should the U.S. continue to massacre the ignorant Africans, then we will be forced to ask Communist countries that are equally strong to save us from this neo-colonialism...
...belabor motherlove and fireside further. Let me turn to the most revealing facet of your article, one not directly connected with the Radcliffe rejection of family life, which you so justifiably abhor. You worry about the pernicious effects of this attitude and its self-perpetuating nature upon young women. Yet in your very sketch of that "magic solution--each woman's recognition of and respect for that graciousness which can adorn her unique role as housewife," is manifested a positively terrifying distortion as damnable as any "Madison Avenue glorification of domestic details." Methinks you have cerebralized too much...
Most French Canadians abhor such lunatic-fringe suggestions. But many are nonetheless prepared to give the Queen a cool reception. In Quebec last week the 300,000-member St. Jean-Baptiste Society, a highly nationalistic group, urged French Canadians to "give the authorities unequivocal evidence of their discontent by staying home...
...still abhor Goldwater's philosophy, but your story [July 24] made me like the man. It was a fair, even flattering article, the first I've seen for a long time...