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Ironically, Crockett may not be re-elected himself. Courts in other metropolitan areas of Michigan were recently merged to serve both core cities and suburbs, and a move is afoot to do the same in Detroit. Crockett opposes the plan, but if it goes through, he will need white votes to stay on the bench when his term expires in 1972. He is not, he concedes, likely to get many...
...more affluent reservations to 80% on the poorest. The birth rate of Indians is 2½ times that of whites ?and a majority of Indians are under 20 years old. The average family has to carry water for its daily needs at least a mile. It is usually done afoot...
...there a homosexual conspiracy afoot to dominate the arts and other fields? Sometimes it seems that way. The presence of talented homosexuals in the field of classical music, among composers, performers, conductors and management, has sometimes led to charges by disappointed outsiders that the music world is a closed circle. The same applies to the theater, the art world, painting, dance, fashion, hairdressing and interior design, where a kind of "homintern" exists: a gay boss will often use his influence to help gay friends. The process is not unlike the ethnic favoritism that prevails in some companies...
...WOULD SEEM, then, the Mrs. Lessing leaves little to believe in. And the statement is indeed true when applied to the first five-sixths of the book. However, there is another movement afoot. For a number of years now, a friend of mine--something of a neo-classicist himself--has been adamant in insisting that a New Romanticism is upon us. I've rarely argued the point with him, for one can hardly be unaware of the fact that we (the Now Generation, right?) are entering a new era (the Age of Aquarius, of course) where all we really need...
...correspondent in 1948 in Palestine, where he first met Captain Gamal Abdel Nasser. By 1952 they had become fast friends. Just before the revolution, Nasser pointedly asked him what he thought should be done about the Farouk regime. "I knew then," Heikal says, "that something was afoot and that they had confidence...