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...leader?" shouts the crowd at Resurrection City. "Ab-er-nath-y," comes the chanted rejoinder. All across the country, as he seeks to raise funds and fervor for his Poor People's Campaign in Wash ington, Ralph David Abernathy, 42, hears the same cry. Less than two months after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the new president of the Southern. Christian Leadership Conference is doing his best to dispel doubts about S.C.L.C.'s ability to carry on. "You can kill the dreamer," he repeatedly tells audiences, "but you can't kill the dream...
...dismayed when he returned to New York in 1904 and discovered the first philistine skyscrapers being stuck into Manhattan "like pins in a pincushion." But what really shattered Author Henry James was a stroll through his once beloved Washington Square. He searched for the house at No. 21 Wash ington Place where he was born, and found the site occupied by a dreary clothing factory. "Its effect for me," he wrote later, "was of having been amputated of half my history." It also rankled James that the city of New York had not seen fit to erect a small monument...
...into a $2 billion telecommunications company was a good idea. Last week the FCC changed its mind. The reason for the reversal was simple: the merger is being strongly protested by the Justice Department's antitrust division - an agen cy that easily outranks the FCC in Wash ington's hierarchy. Bowing to the anti trust division's argument that the ITT-ABC merger might impede competition and open ABC public affairs pro gramming to pressure from ITT's foreign customers, the FCC, by a 4-to-O vote (with three commissioners abstaining), called for new hearings...
...industry's leading producer, announced that it would go along with the price rises (which left the metal selling for 10 per Ib. below its 1960 peak). That move, flagrantly ignoring Johnson's veiled warning, brought the Administration into the open. At a press conference in Wash ington, called at Johnson's specific command, Economic Adviser Gardner Ackley, Defense's McNamara and Treasury's Fowler declared that the alumi num price rises "have no justification under the wage-price guideposts and therefore are inflationary." Though he denied that the decision had anything to do with...
Almost every U.S. city has on the books a clutter of old, obscure laws that are hardly ever enforced. In Wash ington, D.C., for example, it is illegal to sell an ice-cream cone. A law to that effect was passed by Congress in 1921 and signed by Woodrow Wilson on his last full day in office as President of the U.S. Designed to protect the public against spoilage, the law makes it a mi demeanor to sell ice cream in Washington except in easily iced standard units - half pints, pints, quarts...