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...number of voters who wanted to keep the provision in the Missouri constitution was a sad reminder of the latent opposition, never too far below the surface, to integrated schools in the U.S.-22 years after the Supreme Court spoke so emphatically on the issue...
...home," as he puts it, he begins frequenting the quarters of three technical sergeants, two white, one black. They are men of caste status in an army hutment, an odd lot indeed. Richie (Peter Evans) is an avowed homosexual. The college-bred Billy (Paul Rudd) may be a latent homosexual, but won't admit it. And Roger is a black who has bridged the racial gap through competence and an equable temper...
...presidential campaign of George C. Wallace can only be characterized as overly racist. Wallace did not run on a major party ticket, did not expect to win, and concentrated on arousing latent racism among the disaffected. In 1972, before he was injured, Wallace was campaigning for the Democratic nomination and appeared to stand a good chance of emerging as a major power broker at the Democratic National Convention. This situation demanded a new political strategy, one which would appeal to a broader segment of the electorate, one which might be termed covertly racist. As a paralyzed Wallace, employing this latter...
Harvard hockey players are risking more than just poor performances. Research shows that those players with a family history of heart disease and who may now have latent coronary heart disease may develop abnormal heart rhythms. Secondly, exposure to the carbon monoxide levels found in Watson Rink, by increasing the arteries' permeability to fats, increases the frequency of atherosclerotic diseases...
...high that the Lindberghs had difficulty focusing the ugly realities of earth-bound Nazism. One has only to read the airy rationalizations in Mrs. Lindbergh's The Wave of the Future (1940) or the racial fantasies and simplifications in her husband's wartime journals to realize the latent dangers in their naivete...