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...rith's Anti-Defamation League last week reported that in 1966 Ku Klux Klan membership has increased by 10,000, mostly in the North and the Midwest, to a nationwide total of 29,500, and concluded that irban riots and the "black-power" threat had lent credibility to its shabby hokum among those "who previously would have neither listened nor heard." Misdirected Negro militancy also gives those who might otherwise be ashamed of their anti-Negro prejudices a ready-made excuse and self-justification...
Some scholars argue that the 14th Amendment commanded states to take positive action to ensure equality for Negroes. And Congress lent support to this view when it passed the 1875 Civil Rights Act, which sought to enforce the amendment by forbidding discrimination in privately owned inns, theaters and the like. But in 1883 the Supreme Court voided that law on the ground that the 14th Amendment applied only to state discrimination-that rather than requiring the states to act against discrimination, it merely enjoined them from actively discriminating...
...expected, there were days when the supply of columnists seemed almost suffocating. Most performed predictably: Joseph Alsop was back full of high optimism about the war in Viet Nam; Henry J. Taylor took up space with a familiar complaint about undercover "Red spies" at the U.N. Others lent the paper a noticeable lift. Dick Schaap and Jimmy Breslin took a fresh look at the opening of the city's schools and a dress rehearsal at the Metropolitan opera. Society Columnist Suzy Knickerbocker was at her caustic best...
...member of General Bedell Smith's staff in North Africa, Colonel Briggs helped arrange the Casablanca conference. She was lent to the State Department for a London assignment after the war, went on to Moscow as part of Ambassador Bedell Smith's staff, and in 1948 was appointed vice consul in Belgrade. After sending her to school for four years to become a Russian specialist, the Army put her in the Pentagon as chief of its Eastern European branch of intelligence; in 1961 she was sent to France as chief of the Armed Forces Soviet intelligence section...
...soldier sweating through the British evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, Belmondo braves German bullets, saves Catherine Spaak from rape, and growls defiance in a flat Yankee accent. Seems he has been dubbed as well as drubbed, and any nuances that his gravelly, one-of-a-kind voice might have lent to the performance are effectively erased. With only one ace in the whole, the distributors of Dunkirk might have been wiser to let him speak in his own defense...