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Like the great Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, the New York World's Fair unveiled the wonderful wizardry of a materialistic age, as Bell Telephone Company, IBM, General Electric, and an exhibit appropriately called "The Festival of Gas" tried to out-automate one another. The ever-present picket lines were themselves a prime exhibit, however, raising social questions that found expression elsewhere in the Fair...
...role of the vote in the assault on segregation, the students quickly linked the goals of the southern freedom movement to those of labor and disamament. While talking of nonviolence in Mississippi, they spoke of the strikes and layoffs in Hazard, Ky., and the Mexican-American political victories in Crystal City, Texas...
...Crystal Clear. "I have emphasized many times in the past that I was not a candidate, did not wish to become one, and would do nothing to encourage moves to make me one," he said. Despite this, many persons "evidently believe that deep in my heart I do desire the nomination and that I am only waiting until the right moment to make my move. This is not true. But it seems to be part of our American folklore to believe that every politician wants to be President...
...believe no American has the right to take that position." If a draft did materialize, he continued, it would have to be "one which I personally would feel came from the hearts of the people," and not one that was "engineered or arranged." But he sought to make it "crystal clear" that he would prefer not to be drafted. Said he: "I sincerely do not wish...
Peering into the opposite side of the crystal ball, other Kremlinologists interpreted the mission as a thinly veiled slap at Nikita by Rumanian Party Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, an old Stalinist who ostentatiously laid a wreath on Joe's tomb a few years ago. Rumania had already defied Soviet economic planners by building up its own industry rather than humbly serving as raw-material supplier for the rest of Eastern Europe. According to the latest theory, the boys from Bucharest were now parading their ideological independence from the Russians...