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Even the most ardent black nationalists at Harvard deny that they are racists. As one active member of AAAAS put it, "I will stand on the firing line with anyone who will stand on the firing line with me." But again, few believe that any white person really will stand on the firing line. And if he will, they distrust his motives. Whites, they say, are attracted to the civil rights movement because they feel guilty, and will leave when that sense of guilt is alleviated...
...lively interest in sales, technology, law and government. He works at his job ten hours a day in his Manhattan office and another three hours at home, frequently tours his bailiwick; last week he was off on a Cook's tour of facilities in Indiana and Virginia. An ardent advocate of private power, he believes that cutting costs and passing the savings on to consumers is a form of public service. As it happens, he is also well connected in Washington...
Embattled Shopkeepers. Writhing, maneuvering and often split, the party tried to adjust to the new Communist world that was born with Stalin's death. Though he had been an ardent follower of Stalin - and had even at Stalin's orders betrayed the Italian Socialists to the Fascist police - Togliatti now enthusiastically embraced "polycentrism" - that is, the right of each national Communist Party to follow its own course. When criticized from the outside, Togliatti would merely give a vastly expressive shrug: "Siamo italiani [We are Italians...
...created the greatest stir among archaeologists since the discovery of Machu Picchu. "Although we have yet to explore the ruins carefully," said Dr. Luis E. Valcarcel, director of the National Museum of History, "I am almost certain this is Vilcabamba." Peru's President Fernando Belaunde Terry, himself an ardent amateur archaeologist, chatted with Savoy about possible government help for a full-scale return expedition...
...National Shame," the tenth anniversary of the Geneva accords partitioning Viet Nam, Khanh told 60,000 of his country men: "This is not only an urgent appeal of a million refugees from the north, nourishing the dream of liberating their native land. This is not only the ardent wish of thousands of families in the south with relatives who went to the north. This is also the fervent wish of the religious sects, and of the students . . . The push northward [is] an appropriate means of fulfilling our national history." Then the little general led the throng in loud shouts...