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...Bayard Rustin...
Among the most vociferous critics are the poor and the leaders of the poor. Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin has condemned the campaign as "a bag of tricks." Professional Organizer Saul Alinsky has blistered it as "a prize piece of political pornography." There have been countless charges of nepotism, malfeasance and administrative fiddledeedee, of demeaning interagency squabbles in the capital and squalid scandals in the boondocks...
Both were members of the Commission on Free Elections in the Dominican Republic, chaired by Bayard Ruston, which surveyed pre-election conditions through out the island last week...
...names and a picker of brains whom a friend once proposed for the egomania championship of the world. Somewhat muffled in this irritatingly bland and overextended biography by The New Yorker's E. J. Kahn Jr. (The Big Drink; A Reporter Here and There], the late Herbert Bayard Swope nevertheless emerges as a personality of extravagant proportions...
...Floyd B. McKissick, that Congress could not "by one or two measly acts relieve 200 years of injustice." A Southern Negro woman who moved to Los Angeles' Watts district scoffs: "I always been votin' since I got here. But what has it got me?" Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin interprets the Watts riots as signifying "a society where a Negro can show he is a man only by setting a fire"−all other channels supposedly being closed to him. A Charlotte Negro dentist argues that "when the white man says to me, 'Look how fast...