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...this group, so unprepared for the reality of their society, that Time magazine chose for a cover story in January, 1965, entitled "Today's Teenagers," describing them as representative of America's golden youth. They were wealthy, young and intelligent--they were the ones who were going to inherit Johnson's Great Society...
...next director will inherit an organization of over 400,000 members with considerable prestige among blacks and whites alike, but with harsh problems-including continuing failure to recruit younger staff members, worsening black unemployment and the loss of the Civil Rights impetus of the '60s. As a result of Wilkins' blast, the next director may also have inherited a tarnished public relations image. That is a problem the N.A.A.C.P., thanks largely to Wilkins, has not had for years...
...Aided by Government restrictions on pesticides as well as their own growing immunity to the chemicals, and benefiting further from the miscalculations and complacency of their human enemies, insects seem well on their way to fulfilling the chilling prophecy of The Hellstrom Chronicle: "If any living species is to inherit the earth, it will...
...Neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor homosexuals ... will inherit the Kingdom of God," wrote St. Paul. That attitude has survived the centuries. Christians have been grudging in their acceptance of homosexuals in their congregations, if indeed they acknowledge them at all. This tepid welcome has not deterred gay activists from pressing for recognition and even for ordination, issues that sparked long debates at two recent national Protestant Church assemblies...
Last week the Summa trio sought an accommodation with Hughes' relatives, who in the absence of a will stand to inherit the entire estate (after taxes, it could run $1 billion or more). With the backing of the Summa officers, three of Hughes' closest relatives and a Nevada bank were appointed temporary administrators of his estate, estimated to total $2.3 billion. A Texas court named his aunt, Mrs. Frederick Lummis, and her son William Lummis, a Houston attorney; a California court picked Richard Gano, another cousin of Hughes. A potential challenge to this arrangement was being...