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West German politics has been a queer mixture of weakly defined parties since the country's formation fourteen years ago. Konrad Adenauer maintained a continuity of policy only by clever political infighting and force of personality. Ludwig Erhard, the new Chancellor, finds neither political manuevering nor asserting his will very pleasant. But if he is going to change West German policy as much as he would like, he will have to do plenty of both. Opposition to Erhard's ideas is much too strong for him to leave them to their own devices...
...well have handled by remote control. In 1957 a Genovese dope peddler arrested in Manhattan got sore because the boss failed to come to his rescue with a bail bond and a lawyer. The prisoner got even by spilling the gang's secrets; two years later Genovese and fourteen other hoods were convicted of violating federal narcotics laws. The boss was sentenced to 15 years in prison...
...Fourteen student civil rights workers were arrested yesterday in Indianola, Miss., for distributing leaflets without a permit while campaigning for Aaron Henry, Mississippi NAACP president, who is running for governor of Mississippi...
...anticipated it all. It will be a long hard battle, we had told ourselves. But in the dank, filthy, crowded (on the Negro side, fourteen and sixteen people in cells made for four) Albany jail, the struggle to stay merely human had obscured the social battle. Once free, a sense of the complete futility of our suffering settled down upon us like a heavy, enervating...
...Somewhere along in here I began to get excited about magnets, and I remember discovering electric bells and batteries. With my allowance I bought a pound of wire, a battery and a bell--I guess I was fourteen. I made batteries with potassium dichromate dissolved in sulfuric acid. I had a little workshop in the storeroom. Once, to show the batteries, I carried them out on a tray and tripped; I spilled sulfuric acid all over the living room floor...