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...Jerusalem community in Hale County is a fairly typical black town. New Jerusalem is not on any of the road maps, and it is a distinct mistake to ask local gas station owners how to get there ("Why you wonna go see them niggers boy?"). Most white visitors who find themselves in New Jerusalem are there by accident, having strayed off Country Road 21 on the way to Greensboro from Akron. The only white faces that appear regularly in the town are those of county sheriffs, looking for moonshine liquor...
...watch Rusk's televised tes timony, expecting the Secretary to make the announcement. Instead, a news bulletin from Prague was handed to an NBC reporter in the hearing room moments before the White House message reached Rusk. It was passed to Rusk and then to Platform Chairman Hale Boggs, who read it to the committee. Back at the White House, Johnson told Rostow: "Our plans have been overtaken by events...
...debauched Christian, Spintho, Richard Mathews does carry a wine pouch, but makes the character much too hale and hearty. He is supposed to have "gone helplessly to the bad," and complains, "I'm full of disease. I've drunk all my nerves away," but our eyes tell us that it just...
...last week's spring session at Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., took some doing. The 82 aspirants from 20 states and six foreign countries all boasted impressive golfing credentials: Oklahoma's Bob Dickson was the winner of both the U.S. and British Amateurs last year; Colorado's Hale Irwin Jr. was the N.C.A.A. champion; Britain's Clive Clark was a former member of his nation's Walker Cup team. But laurels alone were not the price of admission. Each student had to be personally recommended by his own local or national P.G.A.; he had to cough...
Clearly, the tactics cannot work without popular aims and a liberal humanitarian opponent, like a college administrator or Hale Champion of the B.R.A. Still, given these conditions, the new pressure politics can achieve nearly anything...