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Lightly Governed. In the frontier spirit, Houstonians are jealous of their personal liberties, suspicious of authority. It is characteristic of the city that although the buses carry conspicuous NO SMOKING signs, passengers puff away as they please -and so do bus drivers...
...exclusive and excluded, professionals, laborers, domestics and unemployed. Within the academic community there are the intellectually concerned and the financially preoccupied. To talk of the "spirit of the Negro people" in Atlanta is to ignore the presence of a rigidly structured Negro society, led by an upper crust as jealous of its privileges, as pretentious and snobbish, as any upper crust anywhere in America...
...Jealous Title. Son of a moderately well-to-do Indianapolis grocer, Dillinger lost his mother when he was three, was brought up by his father (who disciplined him by chaining him to a delivery cart) and by a stepmother he detested. At 21 he was convicted of his first attempt at armed robbery and sent off to serve his only long stretch in prison-nine years in various Indiana prisons. Then he was paroled. In the next 13 months, he built the legend that still clings to his name...
...than was ever in the past the ambition of princes or the bigotry of priests. The peoples of Europe fling themselves, like hungry beasts of prey, on every yet unexploited quarter of the world... But always while they divide the spoil, they watch one another with a jealous eye; and sooner or later, when there is nothing left to divide, they will fall upon one another. That is the real meaning of your armaments; you must devour or be devoured. And it is precisely these trade relations which it was thought would knit you in the bonds of peace, while...
HAVING no "front page" for all the important stories, or any back pages in which to tuck away inconsequential news, we feel that all stories-whether about new books or old music-must compete for their share of our space, and jealous editors have a way of contending that the news of their field, whether science or Latin America or art, matters most...