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According to him, there are two alternatives: slaughter and racial clash. But there is another alternative which Mr. Lerner apparently did not consider: the intervention and protection by the Federal Government, which we consider has the duty and the obligation to protect American citizens -- even in Mississippi -- who will be conducting themselves in a constitutional manner to attain rights already guaranteed to them by the same constitution...
...great divide, however, lies between such slaughter and violence as we have used the term here--the violence of the racial clash. Because the clash evokes confusion rather than compassion, it is the violence rather than the social indignity that popular opinion demands be ended. Tactically such clashes must be avoided no matter how great the pressure to retaliate becomes...
Sophomore ace Chris Pardee won his ballyhooed high jump clash with John Hartnett, beating the Tiger captain at 6 ft., 6 1/4 in. on fewer misses. Cold weather held both jumpers well below their peak height of 6 ft., 9 in., although Pardee went over the bar twice at 6 ft., 8 in., only to knock it off with his trailing...
...Kashmir's Himalayan foothills, talking with old friends and supporters. His plan for settling Kashmir's future remains the same as always. Failing a plebiscite-which India opposes because Kashmir's Moslem majority would probably turn the province over to Pakistan-there could only be a "clash of arms" or a "negotiated settlement." Either way, he feels that the only cure for "this cancer in the body politic of India and Pakistan" is to make Kashmir an independent state...
Frozen Dust. Customarily a cavalier poet, even about serious subjects, Ransom sometimes compresses feeling under a surface of grave understatement that eventually reveals, like New England reticence, the hidden vein of pure joy or grief beneath. In the small encounters that he chronicles, a clash of two points of view or a strange moment of fear is often apprehended with a sudden, minute clarity, like two specks of dust frozen in the searchlight of a morning shaft...