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...must show an internal passport when he travels within his own country. A Russian spends much of his free time standing in queues, where he must push and heave to defend his place. Partly because of boredom, alcoholism is widespread; every park in Moscow has its nightly yield of inert bodies that are dragged off to sobering-up stations...
...teacher and executive vice president of Henry Holt & Co., has developed at the Harvard University Press a book list considered to be the best in range of topics and depth of study. He took over the press in 1947, at a time when President James Conant considered it so inert and expensive that he wanted to abolish it. Now it turns out massive works of scholarship, such as the Adams family papers, which may run to 100 volumes (13 have been completed), as well as topical titles like Edwin Reischauer's The United States and Japan. Its bestseller...
...last two are perhaps most important: "The white community is a very tough community, inert and satisfied. It simply won't do for a splinter group |such as the Negro| to be dependent upon a highly organized majority. When Negroes develop an institutional strong point, they have a right to make it their own. Five or six years ago. I saw the need for integration but not for the AAAAS. Now I see the need for both." Monro continues...
...last two are perhaps most important: "The white community is a very tough community, inert and satisfied. It simply won't do for a splinter group [such as the Negro] to be dependent upon a highly organized majority. When Negroes develop an institutional strong point, they have a right to make it their own. Five or six years ago, I saw the need for integration but not for the AAAAS. Now I see the need for both," Monro continues...
...speeches of Richard Nixon. He moves on from Fraser-Blau to the folks at Ritter Pfaud, from the Zayre Corp. to the Udylite people, finally reaching zenith with the "management group of Mr. Grunewald's organization, a firm widely respected for its pioneering work in the development of inert ingredients...