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...noise as a "thud which sounded like a stone hitting the windshield." This may have been the sound of Jordan slumping against the car. "Help me, I've been shot!" he cried. When she saw him wounded and bleeding, she dashed inside the motel and asked the desk clerk to summon police and an ambulance. Then she called her lawyer...
When a howling white mob tried to prevent Charlayne Hunter from entering the hitherto segregated University of Georgia in 1961, a broad-shouldered black cleared a path for her by using his 6-ft. 4½-in. body as a battering ram. He was a young (25) law clerk named Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr. Since then Jordan has moderated his tactics, but he has kept on pushing just as forcefully for black rights and equal opportunity. At the same time, he has become, in the words of Mitchell Sviridoff, a vice president of the Ford Foundation, "one of the great...
...jobless. "A lot of the kids who have more leisure time because they can't get jobs are going to wind up in trouble," frets Norman Isotalo of the Michigan Employment Security Commission. In the Boston area, 10,000 young people have applied for 2,000 lifeguard, clerk, bathhouse attendant and other such jobs paying $145-$178 a week. Though Atlanta's Six Flags Over Georgia amusement park will provide 3,500 vacation jobs, 70% of the young people in the area are expected to be without work. Chicago experts predict youth unemployment will be higher than...
...sometimes takes short cuts to the allegorical without first passing through the fictional. The reason for Fischer's vendetta against God and man is insufficiently anchored in credibility: his wife, now dead, betrayed him by sharing her love of classical music (which Fischer hated) with a lowly male clerk. The doctor's overresponse seems mad, while much of the novel's power stems from the likelihood that he is sane. This confusion may be irritating on the surface; it also serves the author's purpose perfectly. Doctor Fischer coexists. He chases the very vision of infinite...
...brought to its attention. After a civil court judge decided Friday afternoon not to prohibit the showing of the film because did not find it obscene, the district attorney's office chose to make the arrests--a decision that begs reason, not to mention legality. In effect, an assistant clerk of courts and a state trooper overruled a civil court judge by confiscating the film and imposing an injunction of their...