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...auspicious beginning. Joseph P. Lash, onetime radical and United Nations correspondent for The New York Post, thought he had a good idea. In his spare time, he had written a profile of U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammerskjold ("The Man on the 38th Floor") for Harper's and it had gone over big. "It interested people," Lash recalls today with typical understatement...
Crestfallen but undaunted, Lash continued to search for a publisher. He quickly found one at Doubleday, which gave him a "small contract." Two months after Lash completed his manuscript, Hammerskjold was dead and the world was hungry for news about the man. Lash's book was published in a dozen foreign languages. Suddenly, he could look past daily journalism. "There were two beneficiaries from Hammerskjold's death," he quips today. "Khruschev and Joe Lash...
...facing residents of the devastated black neighborhoods, which were bleak and run down even before the burning, was where to buy food, clothing and other daily necessities. Gangs of youths filling shopping carts with meats, canned foods, liquor and clothing had been commonplace. One black man had time to lash a dining-room set to his car roof-but was arrested when the engine would not start. There had long been a shortage of shops and services in the densely populated communities. Asked one young black: "Now where people gonna buy milk? Where they gonna shop...
...sick of the use of such words as "excessive" "overreaction," "antagonistic" and similar others to describe the raising of demands by Black students here. The overall situtation for Harvard University Black students is frightening: it is nearly impossible for us to overreact as we lash out at the problems of blatant and structural racism and insensivity as they affect us. Those such as yourself who are concerned with the intensity and number of demands that Black students raise would be best advised to use your time and energies to recognize and work to end this University's and this society...
...Soviet invasion as an overreaction that has unnecessarily provoked Moscow. From their regional perspective, the European allies fear nothing so much as they do an angry U.S.S.R. and a deterioration of U.S.Soviet relations. Warns Schmidt: "You don't want to scare the Russian bear. It could feel cornered and lash...