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...late Fifties, like it did all over the country. The Oilers had tried to operate as an "independent," meaning they had no full-time affiliation with a major league club. They were not subsidized in any way, receiving no financial aid and no promising young players, which is as hopeless as a city of today trying to make it without federal funds. Graceville dropped out of the league halfway through the 1958 season. "We just couldn't afford it anymore," explained one of the club directors, Mike Tool of Cash Drugs on Brown Street. "These kids used to play...
...described the poor. "Have you ever noticed the faces of the children?" he would ask friends. "Up to a certain age, they are so much freer and less inhibited than the faces of well-to-do children. Then, when they are twelve or 13, those faces take on the hopeless look of their parents. They sense what they are up against...
...Perhaps alternate sources of money should be located. How bad could it be for the government not to be able to make "efficient" policy decisions? Given a Johnson-Humphrey approach to world affairs, the real need is for intellectual sabotage to the point where making foreign policy is as hopeless as ending the farm surplus problem--and its solution as drastic. Until visionary, or even decent and more humane, people retake the White House and the decision-making nexus, our job is to obstruct the government in every conceivable way -- if we do, in fact, have mankind's best interests...
...short of its planned 508,000 force level, showed only two weeks ago, in the Black Lion maneuvers, that it was far too inadequately trained and equipped. Wrote Der Spiegel, the big West German newsmagazine: "The Federal Republic's military situation has never appeared so hopeless as today...
Supak feels that this "trifurcation" of self leaves one worse than useless and he urges for a start, a complete rejection of the "path of least resistance" which leads one into what he terms a hopeless compromise that destroy one's psychic well-being as its inherent contradictions emerge. He acknowledges the temptation to stay "in" since "you not only have to give up less; you won't be beat up, rejected by your parents and their friends...