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...characters - and of Japan. Until last week, however, Yasunari Kawabata was all but unknown in the West. Then, to the surprise of many, he was awarded this year's Nobel Prize for literature for his contributions, as the citation put it, to the "spiritual bridge spanning between East and West...
Generally, it was the black neighborhoods, where parents have long been accused of apathy toward education, that struggled hardest to keep their schools going. At P.S. 134 in an impoverished area of Manhattan's Lower East Side, dozens of parents led some 250 children past pickets to conduct classes. Their attitude was expressed by a sign: THREE STRIKES AND OUR CHILDREN...
Effective but Petty. As a way of calling attention to racial strife in the U.S., the demonstration was undeniably effective. But it was also painfully petty. East Germans, Russians, even Cubans, all stand at attention when The Star-Spangled Banner or any other national anthem is played. Other equally militant U.S. black athletes were aghast at Smith and Carlos' actions. "I came here to win a gold medal-not to talk about black power," said Ohio's Willie Davenport next day after winning the 110-meter high hurdles. He stood straight and tall and proud on the Olympic...
They had much else in common. Born in the 1860s and early 1870s, brought up in the Midwest (Turner in Wisconsin, Beard in Indiana, Parrington in Kansas), all of them came of age at a time when the balance of power and influence was shifting from the effete East to the still raw and resentful Midwest. The financial panic of 1893 was in the making. The Populist movement was galvanizing Westerners and farm folk everywhere into a struggle against big money and big-city interests...
...Hungarian government has not disclosed the charges, but a U.S. Embassy official said he understood that Miss Blueye and the Italian, Mario Rocchini, are accused of "trying to smuggle an East German citizen out of Hungary...