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...legal, intellectual, and moral equals of the white man before this time. I recently met a young Negro woman, born and raised in Roxbury, Massachusetts, who told me that it had never occurred to her that the Negro was not inferior to the white until someone insisted she read Gunner Myrdal's An American Dilemma. Once familiar with Myrdal's thesis that America is split between loyalty to its ethical dictum of equality and its preference for a system of quasi-slavery, the lady resolved to learn more and to serve her people. She is now working nights to support...
...Khrushchev really intend to give a man who once described himself as "a gunner, that's all" the authority to make the decision that could touch off nuclear war? The consensus of the West: Nikita was trading on U.S. cancellation of the U-2 flights to run a bluff on which he reckoned he would never have to put up or shut...
...claimed he would be racing for another 15 years, Driver Harry Schell, a perennial 39, was killed when his Cooper spun off Britain's Silverstone course on a trial run for the International Trophy Race. Born in Paris of American parents, Schell fought as a tail gunner in the Finnish air force against Russia in 1939, later earned a reputation for being as carefree off the track as he was prudent on it, made a career of finishing well up in the pack but seldom in front. Said Britain's Stirling Moss: "Harry was the last gay cavalier...
...Damn Fine Gunner. He seldom knew how the war was going, and his few bitter passages concern the fact that the brass did not seem to know either. Astonishing chances to destroy the enemy were missed on both sides. For weeks Crisp's comrades were blown up or "fried" all around him. Then his day came. A direct hit, a chunk of steel that stopped just short of his brain, and Tanker Crisp was evacuated from an inferno that he has described better than any other writer...
...have met before." It was a survivor of the British tank that Crisp had crippled. Recalling the horror of that day, Crisp replied: "I wish to hell I could forget you." But the survivor only grinned. "Bloody good shooting . . . You must have had a damn fine gunner...