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Perils & Glory. Individual Negroes have shown valor in every war: Crispus Attucks was the first American to die under British fire in the Boston Massacre; Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, himself perhaps part Negro, mustered many colored sailors aboard his men-of-war in 1812; a battalion of 600 Negroes turned the tide at the Battle of New Orleans by defeating British General Pakenham's seasoned Napoleonic veterans. Andrew Jackson paid them a glowing tribute: "To the Men of Color -Soldiers! I invited you to share in the perils and to divide the glory of your white countrymen. I expected...
Overlooked Hazards. The Senate has utterly rejected 19 nominees. In 1866, Congress was so angry with Andrew Johnson that it simply abolished the tenth court seat then in existence rather than approve a Johnson appointee. In 1930 Herbert Hoover overlooked labor opposition to Judge John J. Parker-known as "Yellow Dog" Parker in union circles for a decision upholding so-called yellow-dog labor contracts that barred workers from joining noncompa-ny unions. No nominee has been rejected since Parker, but the hazard is always present...
...harmonious families, life runs relatively free of legal hazard for a child produced by A.I.D. (artificial insemination by a donor). But let a will be contested or a marriage break up, and suddenly his status becomes clouded. Is he legitimate or illegitimate? Is he entitled to support as other children are? What rights does he have to his "father's" estate...
...worst hazard turned out to be people. Natives in Tanzania amused themselves by laying logs across the road. In Kenya, two natives hurled a rock through the windscreen of Kenyan John Greenly's Datsun, knocking him unconscious. By rally's end, only 49 out of the 91 cars were still running, and two dozen drivers were nursing injuries. The winning car: a French Peugeot 404 driven by two Tanzanians, Bert Shankland and Chris Roth well. Said Shankland, with masterly understatement: "We didn't do it for the money-we did it for the excitement...
...long, Kuhring hopes, Canada will be equipped with a coast-to-coast network of forecast stations that can follow and predict the routes of flocks all the way from their nesting grounds in the North to the U.S. border, giving aircraft ample warning of the approach of the feathered hazard...