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...Administration seemed ambivalent. Hubert Humphrey spoke out forcefully in Boston and Detroit against Congress' "inexcusably slow" action this year on domestic measures and demanded bold new programs to ease the ghettos' anguish. But in Washington, Johnson - who displayed passionate eloquence in defense of Negroes when civil rights was a more popular cause - blandly observed that Congress "has carefully evaluated the situation in the nation as it sees it." Explained one Administration official: "Congressmen who are elected by white middle-class voters are in real trouble with our programs...
...Inside Man. When the plan was first announced, it was considered hopelessly Utopian-and Young was considered rather radical for even daring to suggest it. Last week, however, everybody seemed to be embracing it. Hubert Humphrey and ten House Democrats called for a "Marshall Plan" for the cities. Roy Wilkins told a Washington audience that "if we can under write the economies of Germany, France, Italy and England and see that these people recover their equilibrium, then we can underwrite the cost of re covering the equilibrium of our own native black people...
...influential Le Monde, Editor Hubert Beuve-Mery summed up De Gaulle's behavior, as "the shipwreck of old age"-the same phrase that the general himself in his War Memoirs applied to the late collaborator Henri Philippe Petain. "One can certainly understand and share the trouble and the anguish of those faithful to the general. But onto what new rocks will they agree to run a ship of state which they seem to forget that they, too, are responsible...
Into Next Year. The mobs cared nothing for "Negro leadership" either. When the riot was only a few hours old, John Conyers, one of Detroit's two Negro Congressmen, drove up Twelfth Street with Hubert Locke and Deputy School Superintendent Arthur Johnson. "Stay cool, we're with you!" Conyers shouted to the crowd. "Uncle Tom!" they shouted back. Someone heaved a bottle and the leaders beat a prompt retreat, not wanting to become "handkerchief heads" in the bandaged sense of the epithet. "You try to talk to these people," said Conyers unhappily, "and they'll knock...
...Cambridge, Md., got a sample of those war tactics last week when H. "Rap" Brown (ne Hubert Geroid Brown), 23, Carmichael's successor as head of the inappropriately named Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, turned up at a Negro rally. When Carmichael introduced Brown to reporters in Atlanta last May as the new S.N.C.C. chairman, he chuckled: "You'll be happy to have me back when you hear from...