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...paper, few black separatists have sounded more intractable in the past than Playwright LeRoi Jones, 33, who was found guilty in October of having prowled through Newark's riot area last summer armed with a brace of revolvers. "We must make our own world, man," he wrote recently, "and we cannot do this unless the white man is dead. Let's get together and kill him." Yet when the fires started up this month in Newark, Jones got together with Mayor Hugh Addonizio and city leaders of both races to search for peaceful political solutions...
...allied gesture of good will toward the North, and 30 pro-Thieu Senators issued a statement calling the American initiative "a surrender concession." Twenty-one independent members of the House of Representatives called for more bombing, not less. Most of the South Vietnamese press also warned the people to brace for a sellout. "Washington," said the Saigon daily Cong Chung, "is following in the tracks of the French...
Ethnic Distinction. Cooke tries to get behind the image of public figures and humanize them for his audience. "Robert McNamara," he reported, "brushes his hair straight back, in the style of, better brace yourself, Jack Pickford or the late Douglas Fairbanks. The fact that I have to reach back four decades to describe his hairdo will only stress the curiously old-fashioned look of him. Some men dash into a room, some gallop, others float, burgeon, slide, pad, lope or glide. McNamara's entrance is something between a creep and a stroll...
...alone, Bora is manifestly meant to be a symbol as well. In his final contribution to the film's bleak catalogue of miseries, he stabs his rival and flees the town. As he disappears, he be comes all gypsies-the Indians of rope who can neither escape nor brace the present and whose future is foreshadowed with doom...
...disability policy with Western National Life Insurance Co. of Texas, and at first the company agreed to pay him $150 a month for at least two years. Then it reversed itself and stopped payments on grounds that his injury was really an illness. Wearing a brace, Korean War Veteran Fletcher went to court to ask for $50,000 as compensation and $1,000,000 in punitive damages under the outrage law. The jury, no doubt impressed by the fact that he is the sole support of eight children, three foster children, two grandchildren and a wife, gave him the full...