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Even Justice Stanley Reed, who came nearest to dissenting, declared afterward that if this was not the most significant judgment in the history of the court, it came very close to it. Louis H. Pollak, later a dean of Yale Law School, called the Brown decision "probably the most important governmental act of any kind since the Emancipation Proclamation." Richard Kluger goes even farther. He puts this revolutionary ruling-deliberately phrased in bland language and read in a matter-of-fact voice by a moderate Republican from California-at the heart of 200 years of American history...
...again romance with Singles Ace Jimmy Connors, Chris had invited the President's middle son to watch the match, played at a school outside Washington. After her easy win, the pair set off for dinner at Rocky Raccoon's, a Washington restaurant featuring country music, and afterward made plans to meet again. No matter that Athlete Evert, 21, earned $362,227 last year, and that her escort has been unemployed since he graduated from Utah State University last May. Gentleman Jack picked...
...social disadvantages suffered by American blacks are traceable to the instability of Negro family life. Although Moynihan clearly attributed that instability to more than two centuries of racial oppression, several black leaders took offense at his use of terms like "tangle of pathology" to describe the Negro family. Shortly afterward, Moynihan left his job at Labor. His stint as director of Nixon's Urban Affairs Council ended a year after his memo urging a period of "benign neglect" of the racial issue was leaked to the press in 1970. Moynihan still bristles at what he regards as widespread misinterpretation...
...special institutes run by the Soviet secret police near Moscow, where he took courses in political indoctrination, sabotage, the use of weapons and killer karate. In 1969 he was expelled from the Soviet Union, although Washington believes that this was merely a ruse to disguise his KGB connections. Shortly afterward, Carlos appeared in the Middle East and joined George Habash's militantly anti-Israel Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
...hardiest old man in the Balkans has been living it up of late with roistering high spirits. In one typical week last month, he took in a performance of Tosca at the Belgrade opera, repairing afterward to the Tri Sesira (Three Hats) Restaurant for drinking and feasting until 2 a.m. Then he drove to the mountain resort of Zlatibor, where he joined in the kolo, a lively folk dance, made some speeches and visited local officials. Next morning he was host at an annual hunt for foreign diplomats at the former royal lodge of Karadjordjevo. He spurned the pursuit...