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...senior Senator walked down a Capitol corridor last week, Democrat John Stennis of Mississippi, an old ideological foe, embraced him. Said Democrat Thomas Eagleton of Missouri: "You're the best and the brightest in every respect." Republican Paul Laxalt of Nevada, another longtime antagonist, grabbed the veteran's elbow and said, "You were a thoroughbred, sir, a thoroughbred...
They're guilty! They're guilty! They're guilty!" wailed Mrs. Eula Bell McDuffie in the corridor outside the Tampa courtroom. But an all-white jury had just acquitted four white former Dade County police officers of charges relating to the death of her son, Arthur McDuffie, 33, associate manager of an insurance office, who was fatally beaten last December after an eight-minute police chase for speeding on his motorcycle. News of the verdict flew through the black sections of the Miami area, and within a few hours an angry black crowd gathered outside the Dade...
...bedside, where he was recuperating from a strained back, and asked them to reconsider. The feminists and their supporters, including six busloads of burly male Steel workers, roamed the halls of the statehouse in Springfield. Lois Anne Rosen of Chicago collared her hapless representative, Robert Krska, in the corridor and demanded: "How can you be an American and be against equality?" In a weak attempt at humor, Krska mumbled, "Maybe we shouldn't have given you the vote," and then slipped away through the back hallways...
...woman cadet works busily in her quarters, stopping to straighten her already drum-tight bunk. The door is open, not because a male cadet is visiting but because dozens of cadets keep filing back and forth from the corridor outside. (Men have had to forgo the honored custom of strolling naked through the barracks.) The woman is a top member of the cadet Brigade. A formation of her company is just now waiting for her outside the building. "Hey, Mom, it's time," calls one of the male cadets. This time it's an affectionate nickname, a mark...
...very apolitical during my days at Harvard," said Barnet, a History and Literature major. "Students couldn't have been more conservative then." He remained unconcerned with public affairs until the day when the Luces, who lived down the corridor from him in the Law School, were arrested and tried as Communist agents for delivering The Daily Worker under students' doors during their undergraduate years at Cornell. The Luce affair "convinced me of the irrationality of McCarthyism and the Communist scare," he recalled. While working the next year at Harvard's Russian Research Center on his first book, Who Wants Disarmament...