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...doesn't fit into the story yet. ) The relatively conservative blacks of the rural South worship these three charismatic men, as overly moderate as they may seem to us. But now King, Kennedy, and Kennedy are dead; there is no one to follow. Now we have benign neglect. With the war, northern urban political repression, campus struggles, and ecology, civil rights is all wrapped up: Congress passed some bills. Nix-on and his associates are not the only people colluding in benign neglect...
...major writer has ever been since. Venerable Author J.B. Priestley indulges all the era's colorful figures, as he does his own reminiscences of a middle-class youth in the Midlands. Illustrated with hundreds of pleasing pictures, the book is mini-history at its most palatable and benign...
...Moynihan established a reputation as an articulate counterbalance to the conservatism of many of the President's other advisers on domestic policy. Actually, his liberal credentials came under some question last winter with the publication of a private Moynihan memo to Nixon that recommended "a period of 'benign neglect' " of the subject of race in the U.S. Wrote Moynihan: "We may need a period in which Negro progress continues and racial rhetoric fades...
...Benign neglect seems too mild a phrase for Nixon's treatment of the men he aims to replace. Ambassador...
Molten Lead. In keeping with the benign attitude that characterizes the approach of many Government regulatory programs, and because the Toy Safety Act is ambiguous as to enforcement, the FDA has chosen to ignore the law's emergency provision. That provision could be used to end the sale of an item before a hearing. As it stands, even the four toys already cited will probably be around as long as retailers' stocks last-almost surely well past Christmas...