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...Scouts. He is ordinarily a law-abiding, responsible citizen; in his life there have been no riots or violent demonstrations. Yet last week Stafford was willingly risking his job and pension rights-and flirting with a jail sentence and fine. In a mood as angry as the angriest militant's, he declared: "Our Government shows that the only way to get any action is to go out on strike. The only way they appreciate people is when they give a little action. Look at the riots in the colleges...
...troubled waters. As it was, the Chinese and Russians seemed to be roiling the waters quite enough on their own. The on-and-off propaganda war between Moscow and Peking was on again, in full force. Peking condemned the "Soviet revisionist renegade clique." In the Soviet Union's angriest attack on China since the border talks began, Tass accused the Chinese of "fanning chauvinist sentiments and military psychosis...
Only four days after he took office, President Richard Nixon joined one of the biggest and angriest dogfights in airline history. He abruptly canceled a December decision by Lyndon Johnson that had supposedly settled for good a four-year contest for the first new transpacific air routes to be parceled out in 20 years. Johnson's awards, to six of 18 competing airlines, had left Washington seething with charges of high-altitude politicking and string pulling by "rainmakers," the cocktail-circuit term for former L.B.J. aides who had found lucrative jobs with some of the lines. Nixon promised...
...angriest of Britain's Angry Young Men, Alan Sillitoe made painfully vivid the mill-town world of chapped hands and cold-water sinks in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. In this novel, he seems neither quite so young and angry, nor quite so British...
Mean Mischief These new books offer some value as footnotes to the argument. Julius Lester is a former field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. His Look Out, Whitey! is a long harangue that reproduces accurately the black tone of voice at its angriest. It is street-corner oratory aimed at blacks but spoken, as the mean mischief of the title suggests, with sly awareness of the whites standing at the edge of the crowd...