Word: grounds
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Paroled in 1952 after serving six years, Malcolm Little became Malcolm X,* loudly acclaimed the Muslims' professed prohibitions against tobacco, alcohol and pre-or extra-marital sex. He shrugged off his sordid past on the ground that "it was all done when I was part of the white man's Christian world." In 1958, he married a Muslim Sister named Betty Shabazz before a justice of the peace in Michigan. "An old hunchbacked white devil performed the wedding," Malcolm said later, "and all of the witnesses were devils." At the time of Malcolm's death, Betty...
Unholy Mess. Happily for Burma, its Communists spend as much time fighting against one another as against the army. The insurgent White Flag Communists, after some inner dissension, came out for Peking, while the above-ground United Workers' Party backed Moscow. The Red Flag Communists are a Trotskyite rebel group that seem moribund. Peking may not supply arms to the White Flag Communists, but it gives asylum to their leaders. When General Ne Win held 1963 peace talks with the rebel Reds, several of their chiefs arrived in Rangoon via a Red Chinese plane from Peking...
...Spanish side, in the little border towns of La Roque and La Linea, the Spanish cavalry has given way to commonplace infantry and militiamen, while on Gibraltar itself the Black Watch and the Lancers are only a memory, currently being replaced by the Middlesex Regiment. The 15-acre parade ground has become an airfield, while Britain and Spain are engaged in more than a sham battle over the Rock...
Power with a Purpose. It is true enough, says Kraft, that Martin Luther King and others have been complaining for years about FBI inactivity in the field of civil rights. This failing is explained, if not excused, on the ground that "zeal in matters of civil rights has not, at least until recently, been a way to win favor either in the White House or in the power fastnesses of Congress." At another time, Kraft is quick to point out, Hoover was "a model of zeal for civil liberties." When liberals from Earl Warren to Walter Lippmann were demanding that...
...face of creeping mergerism, at least, one department of the University has held its its ground. Despite the token offering of coupons to Cliffies this fall, co-eds were turned away en masse last week when they attempted to transfer No. 29 for the opportunity to see Bill Bradley and his Princeton cohorts in action...