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...postcards picture it, the Atlantic Ocean off Miami is a land lubber's delight where only the antics of frolicking porpoises disturb the serenity of the Gulf Stream. But there are days, and plenty of them, when the east wind rises and turns the 160-mile stretch between Miami and Nassau into one of the meanest, choppiest patches of water anywhere. Then small-craft warnings go up, and cautious skippers stick to sailing olives in a cozy yacht-club...
Hunting License. The spirit of '32 has been rekindled by volatile "Jango" Goulart. After 2½ years of political zigs and zags and soaring inflation, the President last month lunged sharply left, seeking power in ways that deeply disturb and alarm many of his countrymen. Goulart has cut off all discount loans from the Bank of Brazil to politically unfriendly banks, has nationalized oil refineries and threatened to expropriate almost everything else in sight. He favors legalizing the Communist Party, is campaigning also for sweeping constitutional "reforms" that would enfranchise millions of illiterates, lift the constitutional...
...disturb one inch of our ever-popular "banks of the Charles" is to rob us and our children of one of Boston's "crowning glories." We must not become an asphalt jungle...
Despite persistant oversimplification, Blake makes him point well: we have turned and continue to turn "our beautiful inheritance into the biggest slum on the face of the earth." He leaves little doubt that perversions of our natural beauty should disturb us far less than our failures to recognize and correct them...
...with silence for six months. Hence, in order to dramatize its position and rally the Negro community, the NAACP has called for a one-day boycott of public schools on February 26. Many usually reasonable people, Cardinal Cushing among them, are horrified, fearing that the stayout will confuse and disturb the children involved. While sincere, this fear reflects the "ignorance is bliss" attitude that has long blocked racial progress in the city. Prejudice must be recognized and wrestled with; it will not vanish...