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...many of the nation's most concerned and thoughtful blacks with the often professed, but too rarely fulfilled, good intentions of white leaders and white institutions. At a time when blacks feel they are being further repressed, rather than liberated, they are turning inward, but this does not dismay them. In Jesse Jackson's apt summation: "There is still reason for optimism. But it is not based upon what the white man is going to do. It is based upon what we are going to do?and upon what we are going to make...
Draconian Rulings. Few lawyers would agree with his conclusion. But even Administration officials who favored the prosecution privately confess to dismay at Judge Hoffman's performance as trial judge. They feel that he was too old and too insensitive for the task, and that his Draconian rulings and severe contempt sentences obscured the charges against the defendants. However, Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst put a cheerful face on the outcome. "We think it's a good result," he said. "We felt the evidence justified conviction on the conspiracy charge, but that's what juries are for." Kleindienst...
ARMS CONTROL. Soviet missile strength is approaching, and may exceed, that of the U.S. The U.S.S.R. will have 1,290 ICBMs to the U.S.'s 1,054 by the end of the year, though the U.S. will maintain a lead in submarine-launched missiles, 656 to 300. Expressing dismay over the Soviet buildup, Nixon pledges that the U.S. will enhance its own security by going ahead with the Safeguard ABM program. Oddly, there is no mention of continuation of U.S. testing of multiple-warhead offense missiles, possibly because the U.S. hopes to discuss controls on the numbers of such...
...this is what it's come to in Ca-loosa County," rumbles the mayor (Fredric March) of a small Southern town. His dismay is understandable. For one thing, those "organizers from up North" have come down, rallied the blacks and got them to elect a black sheriff named Jimmy Price (Jim Brown). This acts as something of an irritant to former Sheriff John Little (George Kennedy), who bears up pretty well under the shame of it all, considering that the kids on the school bus make fun of his daughter and he has nothing...
...watches in dismay while a girl is transformed-by a mere word from the Master's lips-into a dancing girl trying to interest (chuckle) Lawrence of Arabia. And another suddenly finds herself running down the aisle screaming. "All right, girls. Get those knockers up! Get them up now!" And a group of girls becomes The African GoGo Dancers, gyrating out of control on stage. Arlene thinks this is a little bit male chauvinist, and she's in the middle of telling me so when her turn comes...