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...where Afro-Asian diplomats can send their children. Housing, says a State Department aide, is "most embarrassing": according to one study, about 90% of Washington's property owners refuse to sell or lease living quarters to "people of color." Washington restaurants, required by law to serve anyone, often harass Negroes by giving them back-corner tables or making them wait when there is obvious available space. Private clubs are out, and so are most of the Virginia and Maryland beaches...
...first weapons were volumes on guerrilla tactics by such unsurpassed veterans as Red China's Mao Tse-tung and T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia), who used guerrilla warfare against the Turks in World War I. Chief lesson: a band of well-trained, well-supplied guerrillas can harass and tie down 10 to 15 times its own number in conventional enemy troops-for example, 300,000 partisans could easily keep 3,000,000 troops entangled. The Army reasoned that the U.S.-Communist ratio might run much higher, since the U.S. has one big advantage over the Communists: the waiting millions...
...court's four dissenters-Chief Justice Earl Warren. Associate Justices Hugo Black, William O. Douglas and William Brennan-the majority view weakened the First Amendment and gave the committee license to harass its critics. Justice Black warned that "it is already past the time when people who cherish ... the Bill of Rights can afford to sit complacently by while those freedoms are destroyed by sophistry and dialectics...
...stockholders' meeting can elect new directors, the two men who control TWA were forced to call a stockholders' meeting to approve their plans. That will not take place for at least another month-and no one knew what Howard Hughes might do in that time to further harass his foes...
...problems that continually harass the Congress and the Administration, this has always been the most absurdly easy to solve. Supported by the new President-elect, and Senator Fulbright's plan to recommend the expenditure of at least another $1 million on entertainment allowances, this year's salmon may have a chance. Perhaps they will at last be able to reach their lakes before they are killed by the ignorance and stupidity of those who have never considered diplomacy anything but gentlemen in striped trousers feeding martinis to alluring foreign women...