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Before Michigan Governor George Romney undertook a tour of the San Francisco slums recently, he first stopped for an indoctrination lecture at the Glide Memorial Methodist Church. When a much-liked cop in the city resigned, it was the Glide Foundation that gave him a farewell party-and more than 6,000 persons, ranging from the mayor to a motorcycle gang, showed up to celebrate. Almost any time a San Francisco derelict needs a handout, a prostitute needs an encouraging word, a busted hippie needs a pad, they can count on help from Glide...
...Thank you for "The Negro in Viet Nam." It made me, as a Negro, immensely proud of America's black patriots in Viet Nam and of those who have fought and died in other wars. I hope this article will help non-Negro Americans to realize that the Glide Browns, the Lawrence Joels, and other American Negroes are first-class citizens...
...Gemini Astronauts Michael Collins and David Scott were there along with the 250-seat DC-8-61, largest passenger jet now in scheduled operation. Experimental craft ranged from Ling-Temco-Vought's V/STOL XC-142 to Martin Marietta's Lifting Body, in which astronauts may some day glide back from orbit. In military aviation, the star of the show was General Dynamics' swing-wing F-lll fighter, flown from the U.S. and shown for the first time abroad. No less anxious to unleash a spectacular were the Russians, who contributed to the show's remarkable catalogue...
...with me. He's a better man than me now. He doesn't sass the captains. He's a good, red-blooded American boy." Buck taught his son to hunt and fish in the dense woods near by. Schoolmates of Counter Guerrilla Glide still recall how, when he was twelve, he converted a cap pistol into a zip gun and shot a deer, then dived into a river to wrestle it out and into the family larder. Glide Brown Jr. had no desire to spend his life in the pine flats "tim-timin' " (notching pine trees...
...reshaping white Americans' attitudes toward social justice and integration; it has already given some 50,000 Negroes a sense of self-confidence and a commensurate demand for deeper participation in American society. "If anybody slights one of my soldiers for racial reasons when he gets home," says Glide Brown's commanding officer, Brigadier General John R. Deane, "I expect that soldier's going to get madder than hell...