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...years since he left Iron Mountain, Michigan, at the age of eighteen for art school in Los Angeles, Hubley has created an American folk hero (Mr. Mcgoo), supervised the development of another (Gerald McBoing-boing) and won two Academy Awards for cartoon shorts (Moonbird, 1957, and The Hole, 1962). In 1963 he completed a full length animated feature, Of Stars and Men, based on a book by the University astronomer, Professor Harlow Shapley. The recent opening of this feature in New York was also the occasion for a film festival in Hubley's honor...
...avoid the reforms the country needs. The new government is not going to be popular with the peasants, the workers, and the students, all of whom supported Goulart from the left. The anti-Communist purge will make them unhappy, and if the economic situation continues to deteriorate during the eighteen months that the congressionally appointed president will serve, the new rulers will face a tremendous crisis in 1965. An election would probably bring in a candidate at least as radical as Goulart, while calling off elections and trying to maintain a conservative government supported by the military will make...
...rather, the Republican majority of that legislature--apparently anticipated the new rules. Its 1961 reapportionment has shown how the game of getting one's views represented in Washington and eliminating obnoxious Congressmen can still be played with equal-population rules. New York's districts vary no more than eighteen per cent from the average, but they were obviously drawn with considerable care. New York City's nineteen districts have a seemingly irrational assortment of twisted and contorted shapes. The Sixteenth District even joins Staten Island to a section of eastern Brooklyn...
...colored men's cage at the Hinds County Jail consists of a hundred-foot corridor with five eight-man cells on either side. Everything except the floor is made of unpainted blue steel--the floor is of ancient cracked cement. Each cell is eighteen feet wide by eleven feet deep with two barred and screened windows. There is a hole in the floor of each cell which serves as a toilet--it is flushed periodically by trusties who happen by. There is a needle-spray cold water shower in the large day room (in which the prisoners are locked from...
...Higgs was approached by a young Negro wearing a purple shirt, leather jacket, sunglasses, and a determined frown. "You've spoken well of us, Mr. Higgs, but we've all heard enough talk. I plan to enter Ole Miss this year. Help me." The lawyer agreed, and eighteen months later James Meredith walked on to the Oxford campus...