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...allowed to hold their positions exactly because they oppress and misdirect their own people. Second, many black people still vote the way their land-owner tells them to vote. Third, Wilcox County is a dry county with a thriving moonshine business. Incumbent white officeholders need only to threaten to bust the moonshine business during their lame-duck period if they are not reelected. Blacks and whites alike depend on moonshine for constimption and profit. So this type of threat is quite effective...
...just two minutes and 15 seconds later it closed at 2,200,000 guineas-$5,544,000, the highest price ever paid for any work of art. The expensive transaction eclipsed both the previous public-auction record, $2.3 million in 1961 for Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, and the record for a private sale, an estimated $5,000,000 that was paid in 1967 for Leonardo's Ginevra dei Bend, by Washington's National Gallery of Art. The buyer of the Velásquez, Alec Wildenstein, 30, vice president of the New York firm...
...their shabby, make-shift headquarters in Chlon (a Saigon suburb) to plan their strategy for peace. Many of them also sleep there, fearing interception by the police on their way home- as has happened in the past. Neighborhood women provide food; the local families, anticipating an imminent police bust, have organized into "defense groups." The students greatly appreciate this support- which they regard as proof of popular sympathy with their cause...
...bust of Socrates in Vice President Agnew's office [Oct. 26] is utterly inappropriate and misleading. Socrates was a true champion of moderation and reason, a great teacher who fearlessly sought the truth regardless of self. Aristophanes, one of the men responsible for permanently silencing the voice of Socrates, is described thusly in the latest edition of the Encyclopedia Americana...
...union bust...