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...captured G.I.s who defected to Red China have come forlornly home. Last week turncoat No. 12 returned.* By comparison with his predecessors, ex-Corporal William C. White, 35, a Negro from Plumerville, Ark., had fared well during his 11½ years behind the Bamboo Curtain. A high school dropout in Kansas City, White got a law degree in Peking, studied Russian and Chinese literature and worked as a translator. White also married a Chinese girl, who accompanied him with their two children aged six and four...
...reaches his teens, a stranger to home discipline, usually a school dropout with an atrophied IQ and no skills to help him get a job, the young Negro in the deep ghetto is incessantly told by Black Nationalists and civil rights demagogues that "The Man"−white man−is responsible for his savage hopelessness. "The Man" has become a symbol of their despair, and "Get Whitey" has become their battle...
...opportunity is society's only obligation, and the Negro has to reach out and seize it. The much-lamented dropout may indeed lack a "father image" of manly zeal, but in leaving school he makes his unwise choice against the advice of his teachers and the clear facts-of-life lesson around him. The N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins, after giving the whites their lumps for "keeping the screws on," writes: "We will have ghetto upheavals until the Negro community itself, through the channels that societies have fashioned since tribal beginnings, takes firm charge of its destiny...
...State Department, invoking its 1961 ban on travel to Cuba, turned down U.S. Chess Champion Bobby Fischer, 22, who wanted to compete in Havana's international Capablanca Memorial Tournament. Checked tem porarily, the moodily brilliant high school dropout studied the board, then maneuvered thus: he cabled Cuba's Na tional Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation, asked if he might play the tournament by telephone or cable from New York. Havana has agreed, says Bobby's attorney, and if arrangements can be made through the World Chess Federation, Brooklyn's grand master will be moving...
Murray Kaufman, as only the K's bank manager knows him, is something of an expert in the field-he was a dropout himself 25 years ago from The Bronx's DeWitt Clinton High ("Man, you feel you gotta bust out"). Further, as a disk jockey who is both widely syndicated (he claims 106 stations) and well connected (he is known by his fans as "the Fifth Beatle," and has been included in the Beatles' impending movie), he should know what's happening. His show for Sarge's Office of Economic Opportunity had almost...