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...Never a Spectator." From his earliest memory Martin King has had a strong aversion to violence in all its forms. The school bully walloped him; Martin did not fight back. His younger brother flailed away at him; Martin stood and took it. A white woman in a store slapped him, crying, "You're the nigger who stepped on my foot." Martin said nothing. Cowardice? If so, it would come as a surprise to Montgomery, where Martin Luther King has unflinchingly faced the possibility of violent death for months...
...also referred to a newspaper article by Christian A. Herter, Jr. '41, which said that it would take four years for legislation enacting a graduated income tax to be passed. He said that while he favored enactment of such measures "at the earliest possible moment," in the meanwhile, present tax laws could be applied to supply the needed income...
Greatest of all the Russian capitalist collectors was Moscow Tea Merchant Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin, a neat little man with a big head and striking features, who had an uncanny eye for art. One of his earliest modern art enthusiasms was for Henri Matisse, whom he first met in 1906 when Matisse was 37. By 1914 Shchukin had loaded up with 36 Matisse paintings. Collector Shchukin's second stroke of luck happened when Matisse passed him along to Picasso, and the Russian merchant became one of the young Spanish painter's first important patrons. Shchukin had the good sense...
...spent as much time rushing about Europe to put out fires as he did in digging. But the canal was built, England placated, and in 1869 the waters of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea were joined directly for the first time-more than 3,000 years after the earliest known attempt, using the Nile as a connecting link, was supposedly made by the legendary Pharaoh Sesostris...
Many experts had believed, for example, that membership in a gang was a primary cause of juvenile delinquency, but the Gluecks discovered that nine-tenths of the delinquents show their earliest anti-social symptoms before the age of eleven, whereas boys do not usually join gangs until they are in their teens...