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Demagogic Fury. Kilpatrick did not always see racism as a dead-end crusade. A Southerner by birth (Oklahoma), education and temperament, he went straight from journalism school at the University of Missouri to a reporter's job on the News Leader. There, in the capital of the Confederacy, and on a paper dedicated to white supremacy, he soon distinguished himself as an implacable enemy of integration in any form. Made editor in 1951, Kilpatrick ran an editorial campaign that, in large measure, polarized Southern resistance to school integration...
...Petersburg's birds got the virus is uncertain, though Floridians chauvinistically blamed migrants from the tropics. Impartial authorities considered it equally probable that St. Petersburg has by now become a reservoir from which the virus is being carried to other regions. Man is an accidental and usually a dead-end receptacle for the virus. Direct man-to-man infection is unknown...
...more than 50 years, the Rumanian-born Sculptor Constantin Brancusi hvec in Paris-and for more than 50 years, Paris studiously ignored him. He lived in a studio-shack among a cluster of crumbling shanties in the Impasse Ronsin, a coal-begrimed dead-end street in Mont parnasse inhabited by struggling artists...
...tried to extend Panagra's routes to the U.S. The Pan Am-controlled directors on Panagra's board blocked the move on the ground that Panagra was part of the Pan Am system and that extension would make it a competitive carrier. Determined to keep Panagra a dead-end airline, Pan Am two years later ordered its directors to boycott Panagra board meetings at which extension was scheduled to be discussed...
...With the arrival of Montana's Senator Mike Mansfield, who will be the new Majority Leader, Kennedy and his guests sat down to the serious business of planning the congressional goals of the New Frontier. Most of the promised bills had been defeated or abandoned in the dismal dead-end session of Congress last August: a medical care bill tied to social security, expanded federal housing, a $1.25 minimum wage, assistance for depressed areas, and federal aid to education...