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...County, for example, is 60% Negro. The residents there spurned more than $50,000 in federal cash, voted to raise their school tax to offset the deficit. "The Nigras," insists School Board Attorney J. D. Gordon Sr., "are well satisfied with their schools." Across town, a member of the leaderless Negro community, Baptist Minister M. D. Smith, agrees: "Everyone I know is perfectly satisfied with the present situation...
Vice Presidents have long hesitated to stand in for disabled Presidents. In 1881 the country was leaderless for the 80 days that Garfield lay dying. During Wilson's breakdown, 28 bills became law by default of any presidential action. Though a "committee" of Cabinet and White House staff members car ried on after Eisenhower's heart attack, Vice President Nixon warned that it might have failed "had there been a serious international crisis requiring presidential decisions...
...surreal quality of the Congo's creeping rebellion often obscures the fact that slowly but surely the country is slipping out of the government's grasp. In the seven months since the current wave of revolt began in Kwilu province, various rebel bands-some Communist-backed, others leaderless but just as vicious-have captured fully a third of the nation. Last week the tide lapped at, and then inundated, the biggest rebel prize yet. Strategic Stanleyville, the Congo's third largest city and the old stronghold of its first Premier, Leftist Patrice Lumumba, fell after two days...
...Grey, Quiet Failure." After more than 90 working days this year, Parliament has passed only five relatively minor bills. Completely neglected in the leaderless confusion were such ma jor items as a new pension plan for Canada, armed forces unification, a federal student aid program, and a twelve-mile fishing limit. In Ottawa's press gallery, newsmen long endeared to Pearson are starting to make the same acid wisecracks they once leveled at Diefenbaker ("Well, fellows, we've got a government to overthrow"). Wrote Diefenbaker Biographer Peter Newman (Renegade in Power: The Diefenbaker Years) in the current issue...
Dilettantes were big 400 years ago, but today's dilettantes lack acceptance. Leaderless, mocked and misunderstood, they are pariahs sniffing at the edges of a multicellular society...