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...more meaningful offer was made by the nation's largest housebuilding contractor, Levitt & Sons, which pledged to end racial discrimination in its 80,000 dwelling units from coast to coast and in all its new projects in the U.S. and abroad. Whatever the ultimate effect of these and a score of other proposals made in Martin Luther King's name, the unexpected restraint shown by black and white together last week may prove a worthy memorial to King's cause and, just possibly, a harbinger of greater interracial cooperation and understanding in the future...
...northernmost I Corps area, opened vital Route 9 for the first time since last August, relieved Khe Sanh, and last week recaptured the outpost of Lang Vei, which was overrun by the North Vietnamese in February. Last week, too, in the eleven provinces around Saigon, the allies mounted the largest campaign of the war, which consisted of some 100,000 men in an operation ambitiously called Complete Victory...
...trenches and bunkers, tons of supplies and ammunition, some 1,300 bodies-and hardly a trace of opposition. Whether fled or dead, the formidable force of 20,000 North Vietnamese assault troops that had ringed 6,000 U.S. Marines and ARVN troops was gone. What once loomed as the largest, most decisive and most controversial battle of the Viet Nam war would now never be joined, and the forebodings of the armchair generals* who questioned the decision to defend Khe Sanh had proved unfounded...
...Just as the Southern Baptist Convention, with more than 11 million members, is the U.S.'s largest Protestant denomination, most Negro Christians are also Baptists. Negro Baptist churches have a combined membership of more than 8,000,000. The next largest Negro churches are: African Methodist Episcopal, 1,166,301 members; African Methodist Episcopal Zion, 1,100,000; Christian Methodist Episcopal...
Lytton has made a career of living up to that flamboyant self-assessment. While competitors derisively nicknamed him "Black Bart," and grew apoplectic at his unbankerlike antics, he built his savings and loan holding company from a 1958 midget into a $685 million-asset mammoth, fifth largest in the U.S. And he burnished his status by becoming a patron of the arts, a party-giving friend of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and state finance chairman (from 1958 to 1962) of the Democratic Party...