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...memories were often harsh. The son of a shiftless, intemperate father, Shaw began tending the hardscrabble Alabama soil almost as soon as he could walk. When he was not plowing or picking cotton, he cut and hauled timber, hacked out railroad crossties, carved ax handles, wove baskets. At 21 he married, left his servitude to his father and entered another. Few economic systems can have been as cruelly deceptive as the one saddled on black Southern sharecroppers. They leased their land from whites, who also paid for the "furnishin' "-feed, fertilizer, tools-they needed to farm. At harvesttime sharecroppers...
...third teenager, who hoped some day to become a lawyer, was cut down a block from his home, the apparent victim of a young acquaintance with whom he had quarreled the day before. An 18-year-old was fatally shot by his sister after he threatened her with an ax. An elderly man, enraged because the windows of his house had been broken, rushed out the door with his shotgun and opened fire on three teenagers, killing one and wounding the others...
...Birth of a Nation--the demonstration's goal--has been temporarily placed aside. A viewing of the movie could only have encouraged it. There was no danger presented by the audience--no one was about to rush out at the film's conclusion to smash school bus windows with ax handles. Instead of analysis, there was a miscalculated victory chant for the demonstrators, and bitterness for those who had come to see the movie...
State and local government officials met in Washington to warn against budget cuts in public service programs, suggesting instead that the White House take the ax to spending for defense and space programs. "If you've seen one moon, you've seen them all," observed Minnesota Governor Wendell Anderson. And so it went, each group contending in ef fect that the burden of fighting inflation should be placed on somebody else. The self-interested pleading took up much time at the summit itself. Charles Luce, chairman of Consolidated Edison of New York, one of the nation...
...tight monetary policy, to be pursued by the independent Federal Reserve with White House encouragement, will undoubtedly be the core of Ford's program, as they were at least in the rhetoric of Nixon's. But while Nixon gave no indication of where he wanted the budget ax to swing, Ford appears to have reached a hard and controversial decision: to resist deep cuts in the Pentagon budget and take the heaviest slices out of civilian programs...