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With Leander Perez, defiance is a way of life. In 1943, when Louisiana's Governor Sam Jones appointed a Plaquemines sheriff against Perez' wishes, Perez mobilized the able-bodied men of Plaquemines, including the American Legion, set up a flaming roadblock of gasoline-soaked oyster shells in an attempt to turn the appointee back. Frustrated by a convoy bristling with state militiamen, Perez retreated to mid-Mississippi on a ferryboat, resorted thereafter to a volley of lawsuits (15 at one time), finally defeated the Jonesman in a typically casual Delta election...
...many Americans still see their Catholic fellow citizens as vaguely alien and as narrow-minded servants of an absolutist theology. Because their church is vast diverse and all too easily regarded as monolithic," American Catholics are often taxed with everything from Spanish Catholic intolerance to Italian Catholic cynicism, from Legion of Decency censorship to neo-Thomist philosophy...
...guerrillas. Defense Minister Pierre Messmer and General Paul Ely, in Algiers on a "fact-finding" mission, discovered one self-evident fact: the Army's "consternation" at the possibility of an Algerian republic or a unilateral cease-fire by France. At the burial ceremony last week of ten Foreign Legion paratroopers killed in battle with the F.L.N., tough Colonel Jean Dufour, with tears in his eyes, said: "It is not possible their sacrifice has been in vain. It is not possible that our cries of anguish should be ignored by our compatriots in France...
...enemies of Lyndon Johnson, and they are legion, are rapidly discovering that the time has come to reappraise their nemesis...
According to Mr. MacDonald, American culture during the past half-century has been exposed to the same leveling process which has operated on other aspects of American society. A great legion of well-intentioned clods has materialized as a result. This is a legion that threatens to destroy any highbrow culture that remains in this country; for the middlebrow ruthlessly appropriates highbrow literature and cuts it to fit the well-worn grooves of his own mind. The middlebrow belongs to book clubs that describe the Iliad as "Homer's immortal masterpiece"; he thinks in terms of "truth" and "universals...