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Comparing George Wallace to "a sky-rocket which will drop of its own accord," Durr expressed guarded optimism for the future progress of moderation in Alabama. Having "cut himself off from Washington," Wallace will face defeat on "bread-and-butter issues." But after Wallace, he said the "great silence" must still be faced...
Before announcing the amnesty, however, Ulbricht had released prisoners-strictly on a business basis. Taking a leaf out of Castro's ransom book, he quietly "sold" Bonn 800 prisoners, most of them West German citizens, in exchange for several million marks worth of butter, coffee, cocoa and sugar. The transaction was accepted last summer on behalf of West Germany by Vice Chancellor Erich Mende. When word of it leaked out last week, it was branded by the West German press as a grim "traffic...
...total movement. Claude Weaver '65-3, who spent a year in the state and a summer as project director in Panola County, explained that the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, while perhaps the most significant accomplishment of COFO, is only a start, a way to get at "bread and butter issues." The larger economic problems, like land distributions, will have to be worked out by "traditional political tactics of discussion and compromise" by all the people of the state...
...THRIFT: "Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away...
Barely a month before the election, and against a background of unprecedented prosperity, the U.S. last week found itself in the midst of two major labor disputes. The fact was all the more remarkable because the disputes were not over bread-and-butter issues of pay or pensions, but over such questions as whether auto workers should smoke on the job and how many longshoremen should be available on the docks to unload arriving ships...