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...they arrive in ancient automobiles, hoping for nothing more than a quick profit on a job that will permit them to return to their holler. They are generally too individualistic to work with others and cannot tolerate taking orders. When the womenfolk get work, male pride often degenerates to ire or alcoholism. The men get hooked on day-work (which they can quit easily), earning maybe $7 or $8 a day as a launderer, car washer or janitor. Or they begin hitting the bottle, hanging out in such bars as the "Country A Go-Go" (hillbilly music and rock) where...
...badly let down by his police. The toll: 162 buildings gutted by arsonists, 22 more partially destroyed; 268 businesses and homes looted; $9,000,000 in property losses; eleven lives lost. Yet, of the 2,900 Negroes arrested, only 19 were charged with arson. Last week Daley's ire erupted with nationwide reverberations...
India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ire land, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, South Korea, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Luxembourg, Malagasy Republic, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines...
Unanswered Questions. McNamara, in his final Capitol Hill appearance before moving to the World Bank, did not do much last week to assuage committee members. He aroused their ire on the first point by declaring it was "monstrous" to charge that the Administration had "induced" North Vietnamese attacks on patrolling U.S. destroyers. No one on the committee had flatly made any such allegation, though Wayne Morse did come close by declaring that the U.S. had provoked the North Vietnamese. McNamara then released a highly condensed version of his testimony that was hotly criticized by Chairman J. William Fulbright...
...media have focused their ire on the ABA recommendation that judges use the threat of contempt rulings to enforce restrictions on pre-trial publicity. The media have charged that such judicial interference would be a blatant violation of the first amendment...