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...would differ from the writer, however, in assessing the role of the liberal or sympathetic white. This role is often complex. He does not respect the colored race genuinely, because it does not command respect. Given this, it is natural that he be smug about his eschewal of overt discrimination. He passes up the latter for the luxury of apparent charity. Conscience is the motivation only because real respect is absent. He will not surrender his smugness; there is no reason...
...other hand, the psychologist noted that the "gang" manifestation of delinquency is easy to spot of New York City's East Side, but doesn't exist in a suburban area like Newton. And where gangs are found in Boston, they differ from those of New York in a number of ways...
...could logically repeat his plea to U.S. Allies that they must do more to share the burdens of freedom- borne so heavily for so long by the U.S. Beyond such sharing, the Western alliance must work toward greater unity, he said, even though he recognized that Allies will always differ in some respects (see following story"). Said Kennedy: "The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion...
Ghosts of the Depression. Various schemes of tax reform differ greatly in detail, but most proponents of reform agree that the present structure carries the progressive principle too far. While Congress was shaping the constitutional amendment authorizing an income tax, opponents warned that once the floodgate was opened the top rate might some day reach 50% or even higher. Idaho's William E. Borah, a great Senate champion of the amendment, was outraged at the suggestion, complained that it insulted his "sense of fairness, of justice." After the 16th Amendment went into effect in 1913, the top rate...
...future. But any measures that slow down atherosclerosis will prevent almost as many strokes as coronary attacks. Meanwhile, neurologists are working with surgeons to see what can be done about narrowed arteries in the neck, where the surgeon can get at them. From 5% to 20% of strokes (doctors differ widely about the proportion) occur not in the brain but in the carotid arteries in the neck. Houston's Dr. Michael E. DeBakey has pioneered with a series of operations to restore full blood flow through a narrowed carotid-by installing a bypass, or cutting out the narrowed stretch...