Word: ax
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...better or worse, we occupy the middle ground in the war of the generations. "We may be the only ones left in American society who can see what's great and what's bull," says Frank Conroy, 34, the author of Stop-Time. "We have no ax to grind." We are the only ones who understand both languages, the only ones who can explain the young to the old, the old to the young. Our job, in the end, may be only that of translator, but this may now be the most important...
Sticks and stones, not to mention ax handles, may break your bones, but words can get you a lot madder. Especially if you are Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, and you are running for reelection, sort of, as Lieutenant Governor.* And more especially if the words are those of the Atlanta Constitution and the Journal, which have been arguing against a special session of the legislature this summer...
...three buses carrying 32 black pupils pulled up in front of Lamar High School, a sullen group of 125 white men and women suddenly went wild. The 75 surprised state troopers on hand tried desperately to protect the children, as screaming whites began smashing the bus windows with ax handles, bricks, heavy chains and sharpened screwdrivers. They repeatedly tried to get at the youngsters who were cowering inside. The student driver of one bus, Henry Alford, 18, struggled to hold the door closed. "Most of the kids were girls, and they were scared and crying," Alford said. "The boys made...
Signs of the uneasy new mood were everywhere last week. The South's most segregationist Governors were so emboldened that Georgia's Lester Maddox felt free to flaunt his racism in the restaurant of the U.S. House of Representatives. He passed out replicas of the ax handles he had used to bar blacks from his Pickrick Chicken House in Atlanta; when challenged by Michigan's Representative Charles C. Diggs Jr., he accused the black Congressman of acting like "an ass and baboon." Alabama's George Wallace announced that he was once more running for Governor "to get our schools back...
...itself would suffer in the process. Most economists, on the other hand, contend that total economic output would hardly be changed, and they scoff at the idea that growth itself is the real menace. They contend that the critics have picked the wrong villain, much as Britain's ax-wielding Luddite workers did when they deliberately destroyed new machinery during the early 19th century in the belief that machines swallowed jobs. "I cannot conceive of a successful economy without growth," says Walter Heller, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, speaking for most economists...