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...experience produced Thoreau's best-known essay, originally entitled Resistance to Civil Government. It was indifferently received during his lifetime, and it did not get its more familiar name, Civil Disobedience, until after his death. Emerson, Thoreau's mentor and neighbor, found his friend's reaction "mean and skulking and in bad taste" and later wrote in his journal: "The State is a poor cow who does well by you-do not grudge...
...Emerson missed the point. The essay was the strong call of one invincible conscience, and it took the measure of any strong conscience's invincibility. "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly," Thoreau wrote, "the true place for a just man is also a prison. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose...
...last day, when it no longer mattered, Santana finally came to life. Serving brilliantly and handling Emerson's own, fabled serve with care, Santana beat the Aussie 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, 15-13 for Spain's lone victory of the matches -and set off a delirious demonstration by 400 banner-waving, wine-swigging Spanish fans, who broke through police lines and danced across the court in a conga line. Their hero was more subdued. "Today there was no pressure on me," he admitted. "I play better tennis that way." Loser Emerson announced that he intends...
They were lucky to leave with their sneakers. In the first singles match, Australia's lanky Fred Stolle outlasted Santana in a three-hour marathon 10-12, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-5. Then Roy Emerson effortlessly disposed of Juan Gisbert 6-3, 6-2, 6-2. That gave the Aussies a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series. At that point Captain Harry Hopman decided to give his first team a rest. For the next day's doubles, he called on a pair of youngsters-John Newcombe, 21, and Tony Roche...
...would like to trade more to Britain in payment for VC 10 jets. Although the British are anxious to sell their jets to Lebanon's Middle East Airlines, they are not wild about those apples. The government has called in Greek-born Henry Klonarides, 39, whose London-based Emerson Associated is one of the busiest bartering firms, to figure out a transaction that would dispose of the apples for cash...