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...many faces in the picture, primitive, cheeky faces, with their ruble's worth of self-assurance and five kopecks' worth of understanding-though some are trusting, simple-mouthed) crowd around and watch a performance that no one can buy tickets to see. Following the lantern come two banner bearers. They, too, as though afraid, huddle together...
Last year, only Willie Draper and Peter Carter carried the Crimson banner at the NCAA Championships, but the results were encouraging. Draper, who credited transcendental meditation for his success, finished fourth in the slalom to become an honorable mention All-American. Carter captured tenth in the downhill...
...Williams' implications were, even more damaging was the fact that Rear Admiral Frank L. Johnson, then Commander of Naval Forces, Japan, had knowingly failed to provide available air cover for the vessel. The details were not made public, but when Pueblo's sister surveillance ship, U.S.S. Banner, had earlier cruised off North Korea, Admiral Johnson requested half a dozen or more Air Force F-105 fighters for air cover. The fighters were flown from Okinawa to South Korea, where they were kept on "strip alert," ready to go to Banner's aid. Inexplicably, Admiral Johnson...
Under the banner of mutual loyalty and concern, Laing says, men become nonthinking tools of the group. All those who belong to it are considered We, and merit its protection and privileges; those who stand outside the chosen circle are labeled Them and deemed the enemy-"the Reds, the Whites, the Blacks, the Jews." At its extreme, Laing warns apocalyptically, the "demonic group mysticism" of We-Them can evolve into a "brotherhood unto death," as in Nazi Germany. "Induce people all to want the same thing, hate the same thing, feel the same threat, then their behavior is already captive...
Bailey also announced the formation of a black studies institute in Roxbury to be known as Malcolm X University. Throughout the sit-in, a banner had proclaimed Ford Hall to be Malcolm X University...