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...like the prickly husk in respect of thee, thou Rose, within." Southerners spun elaborate apologias for slavery. George Fitzhugh, a Virginia lawyer, urged in Cannibals All! and Sociology for the South the enslavement of whites as well as Negroes for the good of civilization. "We conclude." he wrote, reworking Jefferson, "that 19 out of every 20 individuals have a natural and inalienable right to be slaves...
Regarding the steel crisis [April 20], it has taken a crafty captain of industry to prove beyond all doubt what we Democrats have known for some time: what this country has in the White House is a man of steel. JEFFERSON FRAZIER...
Missouri House of Representatives Jefferson City...
...effect, Monday's decision is a big step towards freeing America from the domination of its own rural past. A distrust of cities--Jefferson called them "Sinks of voluntary misery"--is built into the machinery of the present American political system. A progressive disenfranchisement of city voters has taken place for the last fifty years; and every year the imbalance between the city and the farm has become more intolerable. The average value of the big city vote in the 1960 elections was less than half the average value of the vote in rural parts of the country...
...coincidence that these four incidents have occured since the departure of McGeorge Bundy. If his successor as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences could be found quickly, perhaps such administrative delays could be ended before the arrival of warm weather and the riot season. Jefferson B. Hill '63 John Howard Payne '63 James DeW. Perry...