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...cannot foresee a substantial increase in rate," a federal judge in Alabama said last January, "and if the process is left to the courts, I think desegregation will take at least fifteen more years...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Rights Paralysis | 10/10/1968 | See Source »

Yesterday a cell of fifteen Harvard anarchists marched onto the Boston Common behind a black flag to support the presidential campaign of George Wallace, who was speaking there...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: H-R 'X' Approved by HUC; Anarchists Support Wallace | 10/9/1968 | See Source »

...anything, Thornberry's case is more susceptible to charges of cronyism than Fortas's. In 1948, when Johnson joined the Senate, Thornberry became Congressman in Johnson's place. For fifteen years, until he retired to accept a District Judgeship in late 1963, Thornberry held the central Texas seat, and remained a good domino-playing friend of Johnson's. As a Senator, and later as Vice-President, Johnson often referred to him as "my congressman...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: The Fortas Reflex | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

...might alone be worth the price. Both are art-house standards, and worthily so. Luis Bunuel's first film, Un Chien Andalou (a 1928 collaboration with artist-entrepreneur Salvador Dali), will either fascinate or frustrate with its free-association stream of symbols. (If you get completely lost in these fifteen unusual minutes, just remember violence symbolizes sex, the dead mules on the piano symbolize sex, and ants symbolize masturbation.) Exploited sometimes as Bunuel's creation or more accurately as Dali's, Chien Andalou exhibits the most youthful characteristics in both. Dali's frantic desire to shock the bourgeoisie...

Author: By David W. Boorstin, | Title: Freaks | 9/24/1968 | See Source »

...Minneapolis last weekend a group of about fifteen prominent anti-Administration politicians met to try to tie together what has happened since the convention and what might come about in the future. Among them were a few of the new stars of 1968 like Allard K. Lowenstein, the New Yorker who founded the Dump Johnson campaign and put together a McCarthy-dominated Coalition for an Open Convention last summer with some Kennedy support, Julian Bond of Georgia, and Donald O. Peterson, the Wisconsin delegation chairman who refused to buckle under to Mayor Daley...

Author: By Robert M. Krim, | Title: Who Will Nominate Kennedy in 1972? | 9/23/1968 | See Source »

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