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Many whites have argued that enough civil rights legislation has been enacted for now, and that the time has come to digest it and try to make it work effectively. Brooke disagrees. "To stand still is to regress," he warned. "The word 'wait' engenders hate. If Congress, out of fear or anger, continues to choose the path of inaction, the lightning of violence will strike again and again...
...early days, Max Eastman was a fiery socialist editor (the Masses, Liberator), a dedicated sexual adventurer and a noisy defender of Communism. Since the 1940s, he has been a sometime roving editor for the Reader's Digest, a proclaimed expert on Russian skulduggery, and a boastful chronicler of his youthful capacity for hell-raising (Love and Revolution...
Tobacco is a basic tool of learning. It soothes a mind boggling at books, smoothes the heartbeat, quiets the nerves. A man can gather information without books, but to digest it without tobacco is purest folly. Knowledge fills the mind; a good cigar expands...
...member of the Harvard Corporation since 1952, Lamont put his financial acumen, his administrative knowhow his enormous circle of friends, and his unflagging energy at the service of the University. Many Faculty members and administrators were accustomed to receiving letters from him containing a newspaper clipping, a digest of a conversation between Lamont and one of his prominent friends, or, most often, a question...
Along with other consumer items, the U.S. public is now paying more for magazines. Last month Reader's Digest and Look raised their newsstand price from 350 to 500. TIME increased from 40? to 50?. Last year the Saturday Evening Post and the Saturday Review jumped from 25? to 35?. Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report rose from 35? to 40?, Cosmopolitan and Redbook from 35? to 50?. Holiday spurted from 60? to 75?, Town & Country from...