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...hate and discrimination completely escapes me. Despite feeble disclaimers, it smacks of the smug American, caught again in embarrassing racial strife, chortling defensively: "Ah ha! You see, those sanctimonious Asians are just as ugly, prejudiced and hateful as we Americans are!" One wonders whether the American Negro of Selma, Ala., would fully agree with your sweeping judgment that "America's problems are subject to a system of social and legal redress." At best it has been a spotty "system," hundreds of years in coming. There is little pride, and small comfort, in trumpeting with such profundity that other nations...
...Mentality. No longer a monolithic organization, the Klan today consists of several ragtag independent groups, the best known of which is the United Klans of America, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., headquartered in Tuscaloosa, Ala., with an ex-tire salesman named Robert Shelton as its Imperial Wizard. Estimates of Klan strength range from 10,000 to 40,000 members, many of whom for some peculiar reason seem to be rural service-station attendants. Most members, in any case, are deluded rednecks whose only skill is sharpshooting. That the FBI has infiltrated deeply into their ranks is indicated...
Hundreds of college students devoted part of their vacation to the mass march on Montgomery, Ala. An air charter service in Boston got 900 applicants for flights to Alabama, but had space for only 318. Yale dispatched students to St. Augustine, Fla., to continue remedial teaching among Negroes, begun last summer. The action in the South was a bit distant for most Californians, but a Claremont senior helpfully pointed out that they could "always go right down to the courthouse in Los Angeles" to demonstrate...
...will push astronauts near the moon, then send a part of the vehicle into lunar orbit. The Russians seem to be leaning toward the orbiting-platform concept promoted for years by German-born Dr. Wernher von Braun, who is now Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Ala...
MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 25--More can 50,000 people--twice the number anticipated--massed at the foot of lily-white state capitol building today for the grand finals of Martan Luther ing's 50-mile march...