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Crossed Fingers. In fact, Brooke has worked effectively for racial equality. He helped prepare a 1950 brief that led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision to desegregate dining cars, and he has long been an advocate of fair employment practices in Massachusetts. Says Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin: "If you compare Brooke and Adam Powell on civil rights, you cannot immediately give the edge to Powell. Adam blocked granting of funds to the Urban League. He was absent for the vote on many bills, including civil rights bills." Floyd McKissick, CORE's national director and an advocate of black power...
...showed G.O.P. national committee men-or at least those who responded-preferring Nixon over Romney by 3-to-2 margins. The results, however, may be deceptive. "If you're really undecided and don't want to commit yourself this early," says Rhode Island's G.O.P. Committeeman Bayard Ewing, "what could be safer than being for Nixon...
...Mayo Clinic's Dr. Bayard T. Horton began the search for something that would be gentler in action and effective when taken by mouth. His chemist collaborators found betahistine dihydro-chloride, now manufactured under the trade name Sere by New Jersey's Unimed, Inc. Just approved for general prescription, Sere has already been taken by 14,000 patients under the care of almost 300 physicians. Because Meniere's symptoms come and go unpredictably, evaluation of any treatment is a long and tedious process. But in a careful double-blind study, in which neither doctor nor patient knew...
More are Lee White, Chairman of the Federal Power Commission, Feb. 26-28; George Romney, Governor of Michigan, March 13-15; Bayard Ruston, Executive Director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, March 27-29; John V. Lindsay, Mayor of New York City, April 23-25; and Carl Sanders, Governor of Georgia...
Responsible Negro leaders, in consequence, are beginning to speak out against the separatist and racist implications of the philosophy. " 'Black power' not only lacks any real value for the civil rights movement," writes Bayard Rustin, organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, in the current Commentary, "but its propagation is positively harmful. It diverts the movement from a meaningful debate over strategy and tactics, it isolates the Negro community, and it encourages the growth of anti-Negro forces...