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Perhaps the most odious facet of this strategy involves the liberal's relationship with the Negro: the liberal must again urge patience. Demonstrations in the South should focus on specific grievances that the Northern moderate can comprehend easily. If violence occurs, blame must lie clearly with the white Southerner. In the North, violence could prove fatal to the President's chances; the white is incapable of understanding why irrational treatment of the Negro should elicit an irrational response. In general, direct action in the North should be discouraged this summer...
...Warren Commission's hearings as attorney for Lee Harvey Oswald, Commission Counsel J. Lee Rankin stiffly refused. Last week the commission changed its mind. It named Walter E. Craig, president of the American Bar Association, to defend Oswald's interests, with the right to examine "every facet of the case...
...series is designed to study "a facet of American history that has gone too long unrecognized and is often misunderstood" in an attempt to gain insight into the present civil rights struggle and discover "visible alternatives" for action today...
...Long Island University draped the aqua-colored hood of a doctor of letters-his 17th honorary degree-on General of the Army Douglas MacArthur. "Sentiment has muddled many problems," said MacArthur, whose memoirs began in LIFE last week, "but has settled none. In the long advance of civilization, no facet has quite reached the importance of a full education...
...Your fine cover story on Nicole Alphand [Nov. 22] portrays a remarkable woman and a remarkable way of life, but it omitted a large facet of that life. Nicole Alphand has been directly responsible for several hundred thousands of dollars pouring into Washington charities' needy coffers. She has organized benefit balls, attended and sponsored countless luncheons and fashion shows, donated "specialties" from her chef and French products to bazaars, opened the embassy to paid tours (benefiting the Salvation Army and Good Will Industries). In addition, indirectly she and the ambassador are responsible for even more thousands of dollars...