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...aircraft producer (Boeing, Beech, Cessna). It is also Middle America. Blacks make up just 12% of its population; it is only by accident of rotation that the single city commissioner who is black will become its next mayor. Wichita is a "placid" sort of place, says outgoing Mayor Donald Enoch. It is deeply conservative; the town fathers banned a proposed Wichita production of Hair. Chester Lewis, a former regional N.A.A.C.P. director who now practices law in Wichita, observes: "The Silent Majority is what this city is all about...
...BUSED placards recently marched on the board of education headquarters and dispersed only after reciting the Lord's Prayer in unison. The school superintendent, Dr. Alvin Morris, insists that "there is a national revolutionary group at work." "It's not a matter of racial prejudice," Mayor Enoch argues. "The blacks don't want to be bused either." Enoch goes on to say that breaking up residential segregation is the way to integrate the schools, not busing...
British racial prejudice began early in Birmingham. Enoch Powell's constituency is in that area. One of the reasons many of the pimps are immigrants is that they have been discouraged by the prejudice they have met in more legitimate enterprises. Miss Mendelsohn said, however, that there seems to be an underlying trait shared by the girls on the game and their men. They find the routine of industrial life too restrictive. "That they choose to live the life they do," she said, "is an indication of a kind of strength, not weakness...
Much of the time at Brighton, Ted Heath was almost the extra man. Delegates cheered such thunderers as Extremist Enoch Powell, known in some quarters as "the literate George Wallace" for his racial stance. Only on the closing day did Heath manage to score some points...
...first whites to say very loudly that black is beautiful; the light-heartedness of his evidence still rings out. When he brought a character named Johnny Fortune from Lagos to London twelve years ago, few people in England were thinking of racial tension or predicting an Enoch Powell. Maclnnes set Johnny and a white friend loose in an African and West Indian shadow world full of jouncing characters with cross-rough names: Mr. Peter Pay Paul, Mr. Karl Marx Bo (a future Prime Minister for sure), Mr. Ronson Lighter, and villainous Billy Whispers. The result was British high-low comedy...