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...senior Soviet diplomat turned to a U.S. acquaintance. "You Americans are top dogs who are going down fast," he said. "We are underdogs coming up fast. We have Pompidou and Brandt going to Moscow. Heath is coming to get his astrakhan hat, and he might even get a keg of vodka too. They are turning our way. They are trying to strike bargains because they know we are moving up and you are moving down...
...highest-ranking blacks. "The blacks started out mistrusting the President, and nothing has happened to change that," Farmer added. "There's an absence of hope-a hopelessness among blacks. I am very much worried about this summer. The Administration is sitting on a powder keg...
...valiant effort on our part." Clark said solemnly after the match. "We were rebounding from a tough Friday night at a local campus tavern, and we were looking forward to a free keg of beer that the proprietor had promised us for breaking up a brawl in the back room...
...open keg of gunpowder with people smoking around it." That is how the host of a discussion show on a Pontiac, Mich., radio station describes his city. The explosive potential lies in the makeup of the factory town's population of 80,000. Of the total 30,000 are blacks, 4,000 Spanish Americans, 13,500 whites from the South, and the rest local whites. Tension in Pontiac, and in its schools, has been consistently high ever since two men were killed and fire bombs thrown in a spillover of the 1967 riot in nearby Detroit. Last year...
...exclude the public and press. Precedents on inquests in the state are vague. Only two inquests have been held on Martha's Vineyard in the past 40 years. One, in 1932, concluded that a man named Valdimer Victor Messer evidently sat on a keg of dynamite wired to a battery and dematerialized himself...