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...would not stay at a school that didn't practice what it preached. Friends recall other racial slights: a note from a white classmate in his high school yearbook, "Keep on trying, Clarence. One day you will be as good as us." He was also ridiculed for his dark complexion. Once a student yelled to him after lights out, "Smile, Clarence...
...World War II threatens to fracture along the very ethnic lines that have created Yugoslavia's current miasma. Led by a cadre of generals who are the last bastion of hard-line communism in the country, the officer corps is predominantly Serbian, while the conscript ranks reflect the multiethnic complexion of the Yugoslav federation. Among the 2,300 troops captured by the Slovenes were hundreds who had turned themselves in, testimony to the lack of resolve within the ranks. Many of the troops fighting in Slovenia are raw recruits called up this year. Reflecting a conviction shared by many soldiers...
...fair to assume that there may be an effort to change the political complexion of students admitted," Troutt said...
DION: BRONX BLUES: THE COLUMBIA RECORDINGS (1962-1965) (Columbia/Legacy). One of the greatest rock voices of any complexion, caught here, in transition, changing from the king of romantic, street-savvy doo-wop to being a kind of gentle bard of urban blues...
With his pasty complexion, protruding ears, receding hairline and somewhat doleful expression, Souter, 51, was as deceptive in appearance as he was unshakable under pressure. Alabama Democrat Howell Heflin called Souter a "Stealth nominee" because so little was known about his views. But other questioners commented on the variety of his experience -- as attorney general, trial judge, state supreme court justice, federal appeals court judge -- and the ample record, including 220 state supreme court opinions, that was available for scrutiny. Unlike failed nominee Robert Bork, however, Souter had left behind no trail of speeches or law-review articles that might...