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...done is read the Declaration of Independence and think they can solve this problem," he once said. As he sees it, the racial conflict in Selma stems from the fact that most of the town's "Nigras" are Ebos and Angols, which he believes are the two most backward tribes of the six from which all U.S. Negroes are descended (the others, according to Hare: Burburs, Kaffirs, Gullas and Guineas). The judge is convinced that Ebos and Angols are genetically incapable of achieving IQs beyond 65. "They're like white riff raff and river rats," he said recently...
...patient's neck region, so they cut a hole into his windpipe and inserted a tube through which he got all later anesthesia. They clamped his jaws tightly shut and fastened his head in a frame to hold it at an unnatural angle-at first, 15° backward and 20° to the left. They made a long incision from below his ear around past the windpipe. At last, U.C.'s Dr. Roland K. Perkins and Dr. Ronald J. Stoney could start moving closer to the target...
Joseph Lee, another committeeman, said that "white children do not want to be transported into schools with a large proportion of backward pupils from un-prospering Negro families who will slow down their education." Both Lee and Mrs. Hicks termed the price of exchanging students "too high...
Many Asian countries have not yet absorbed backward peoples in their midst. Marauding tribesmen inspire almost psychotic fear in Pakistani officers; India has been plagued with demands for self-determination by her half-civilized Nagas. Aboriginal tribes like Viet Nam's montagnards have virtually no voice in their central governments, occasionally take up arms in protest; they are now more loyal to the newly arrived American Special Forces advisers, who arm and pay them, than to the Saigon regime...
...each year, so the odds against any one winning the Derby are 15,000 to 1. Still, folks keep trying. Financier Louis Wolfson has been at it for years. In 1961 he had a top prospect in Roving Minstrel, but one day Roving Minstrel reared over backward, damaged his brain, and had to be destroyed. "The breaks of the game," sighed Wolfson, and coughed up $39,000 for another colt, Raise a Native. The horse won four races, smashed two track records -and broke down. Or consider the case of Christopher Chenery, utilities magnate, Derbyphile. On the day before...