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...cannot justify Powell's personal conduct, but I see our bigoted treatment of him, the symbol of black power, as a grave moral sickness...
...born Dumitru Radu Popescu relived a teenager's view of the smooth transition from fascism to Communism in his haunting short story, The Blue Lion. To escape the heavy hand of the censor, Polish writers such as Zbigniew Zaluski have resorted to 19th century allegories that discuss in grave detail the positive qualities of Polish uprisings against the Russians 100 years ago-a theme with sledgehammer relevance in Poland today. The Eastern Europeans are also encouraged by the occasional sounds of independence they hear from Moscow, where Aleksandr Tvardovsky, the editor of the literary weekly Novy Mir, last week...
...April meeting of his Auto Workers Union will probably give him the power to pull the union out of the labor federation altogether. A complete split between George Meany, President of the AFL and Walter Reuther, his vice president, and head of the organization's largest union will have grave effects on the entire labor movement...
...ride, while the bills for paper and ink alone swallowed up the magazine's revenues?and then some. Before launching LIFE, Luce had declared: "It can be safely assumed that $1,000,000 will see LIFE safely through to a break-even 500,000 circulation or to an honorable grave." Yet Time Inc. spent $5,000,000 to keep LIFE from dying of success before the magazine finally turned the profit corner in 1939, when its circulation had reached more than 2,000,000. LIFE, which hardly needed extra attention, nevertheless got it when it published a frank and explicit...
Decline of Discipline. The hemorrhage was grave. The Congress Party lost 96 seats in the lower house of Parliament, held on to only a 17-seat majority in the 521-seat body. It lost control of five of India's 17 states, and all of the major cities...