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Signs of the uneasy new mood were everywhere last week. The South's most segregationist Governors were so emboldened that Georgia's Lester Maddox felt free to flaunt his racism in the restaurant of the U.S. House of Representatives. He passed out replicas of the ax handles he had used to bar blacks from his Pickrick Chicken House in Atlanta; when challenged by Michigan's Representative Charles C. Diggs Jr., he accused the black Congressman of acting like "an ass and baboon." Alabama's George Wallace announced that he was once more running for Governor "to get our schools back...
Enjoy your job, Mr. President. You worked hard and long to get it. But please don't flaunt...
Whiteside documents a shocking chronology. It includes private (but not Pentagon or Food and Drug Administration) testing of the chemical. He cities overlong suppression of crucial reports and in their wake othcial hedging. Manufacturers of the chemical have tried to flaunt the portents of misery. They say testing may have been too narrow or chemical used in tests impure. They dodge horrible implications. Whiteside quotes "one eminent biologist" who has studied the laboratory test data: "if the effects on experimental animals are applicable to people it's a very sad and serious situation...
...response to the President's TV appeal for "the silent majority" to speak up, the cheering anti-Moratorium demonstrators represent a fresh force in the national controversy over the war. They praise Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew, support the Government's course in Viet Nam and flaunt their patriotism. They resent, perhaps even more vehemently, all those rebellious youngsters and peace marchers who have attracted so much attention for so long...
...society is responsible for the high abortion rate in this country. It's not just blind stupidity, the country is sick. We're afraid to touch each other, afraid to get close to each other, because of all the phony moralistic ideas about sex. Current books and movies flaunt sex in young people's faces, but at the same time the society is saying, it's wrong, don't do it. It's got people so hung up that they can't talk to each other. We have to face the fact that we're all sexual beings...