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...ironical that the same issue should also carry reports on the violence in Alabama engendered by the eruption of race hatred and bigotry. It would be wise to heed what Abraham Lincoln wrote: "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain...
...physiological terminology is now somewhat outmoded, but it afforded James a convenient basis for some of his famous pedagogical maxims. "Could the young but realize," he wrote, "how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its ever so little scar. . . . Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks...
...happens, Kenya's northeast has long been a favorite squatting ground for nomadic Somali tribesmen, who herd their camels and goats back and forth across the Horn of Africa without heed to national borders. Fiercely independent, the illiterate Moslem tribesmen fight savagely among themselves for grazing land, for this is the possession they hold most dear. A proud people, tall, lithe' and fine-featured, the Somalis are Hamitic in origin, descended in part from 7th century Arabs who crossed into Africa from Yemen. Forever vain about their heritage, they are also accustomed to having their...
...conservative Democrat Harry Byrd. The idea was that a Finance Committee increased by two liberals would help in the passage of Kennedy's tax and medicare programs. Kennedy himself, told he could not win, tried to call his followers off. But the Senate liberals paid no heed, insisted on bringing it to a vote in the Democratic Steering Committee-and they got badly whipped...
...first head of the newly created Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, Governor Orval Faubus had one admonition: "Think of Arkansas first in all that you do." That was in 1955, and since then Millionaire Winthrop Rockefeller, a transplanted New Yorker, has certainly paid heed to Orval's words. In fact, he has perhaps done too well at helping Arkansas redeem itself from poverty. For Democrat Faubus is now trying to oust Republican Rockefeller from the A.I.D.C. chairmanship...