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Although the Vietcong flag may be seen here and there in our marches and rallies, our most appropriate banner remains the flag of our Republic. If only by a drapery could we draw temporary attention away from the blue field of the fifty sparkling subdivisions of us as a now global superpower to spotlight the thirteen red and white stripes of the embattled and once only partially united original states in order to remind us and all that we ourselves about two centuries ago were shaped in a sneaky fencerow guerrilla warfare that enraged the minuetlike martial formations...
...movement, Phase I. When this Phase I came to an end with the assassination of Martin Luther King, it was especially meaningful to have the American flag fly alongside the UN flag and the Christian flag in the funeral procession in the streets of Montgomery because the States Rights banner of the Confederacy had been the overt or covert symbol of the opposition to integration then being enforced by the Attorney General, the U.S. marshals, and the Supreme Court. But now in the kindred movement of opposition to the war, enlisting many of the same people and in any case...
...overtly anti-establishment and have lost hope for America except through revolution), despite the direct appeal to us and felicitation on our activities over the head of our government from Hanoi and the NLF, we will not waver in our conviction that we rightly march under those same three banners that preceded the mule-drawn cortege in Montgomery: under the UN flag, symbolizing international concern and universal justice, under the banner of the Church for us who are prophetically Christian, and under the flag of our Republic concerned with liberty and justice...
China is in the throes of massive war preparation. Under the banner "Prepare for war and natural disaster," Chairman Mao Tse-tung has ordered hundreds of thousands of city dwellers to be shipped off to the countryside as part of the Shu-san (literally, "to disperse") movement. For months, the Chinese have been dismantling and dispersing factories, digging bomb shelters and trenches and stockpiling food...
Alan L. Bean, 37, lieutenant commander U.S.N., a space rookie, is the most serious of the Apollo 12 astronauts. A devout Methodist, he carried a church banner covered with such Christian symbols as a fish and chalice aboard Yankee Clipper. At the University of Texas, which he attended on a Navy scholarship, Texas-born Bean made the wrestling and gymnastic teams and met his wife Sue, a college tumbler. Like most of the astronauts, he likes to exercise (his favorite sport: surfing in the Gulf of Mexico). Calm, self-possessed and straightforward, he trained patiently for six years...