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Robe Dragging. Other judges are not so able to resist community pressure or go beyond long-held beliefs. After the first Supreme Court desegregation decisions in the 1950s, many Southern district judges dragged their feet, their robes, their dignity and anything else that came to hand in an effort to slow or reverse the course of integration. In Dallas in 1960, for example, Judge T. Whitfield Davidson, then 83, ruled that a plan promising complete desegregation by 1973 was unacceptable-because the school board was moving too fast. Higher courts reversed rulings in the case at least five times...
...deciding his own fate, or submitting himself to the will of the inevitable, the will of his God. His torment lies in the fact that either choice will result in the same outcome-a martyr's death. Becket finds such a death to be the ultimate path to his long-held desires for power and glory; humble submission to the will of God demands the same sacrifice. Salvation or damnation will in the end be determined by whether or not he accepts his fate, or decides it. He knows, and does not know, that "The last temptation is the greatest...
...imagine this exchange being bandied around the Advocate office as its editors put together the February issue. One senses beneath its pages, the good faith and serious intentions of those who worked on its there is a long tradition behind their attempts, as well as a long-held confidence that what they are doing is worthwhile. At the same time, there comes across a feeling of frustration at the state of creative writing in general. The contributions seem to be asking with mounting uncertainty, "Where is it all going...
...carry out peace terms is recommended by both sides, for different purposes. Hanoi still proposes the reunification of North and South, less adamantly than it used to, and the U.S. now accepts the possibility-although the means to bring that about remain vague for now. Last week, reversing a long-held stand, President Nixon conceded that the U.S. would be willing to participate in discussions of political questions between the N.L.F. and the Saigon government. Previously, the U.S. had sought to negotiate only military matters, and only with North Viet Nam, while South Vietnamese alone dealt with internal questions...
...emotions were genuine, the eulogies more than protocol. Richard Nixon, who emerged red-eyed from the hospital with his wife and daughter Tricia, praised his old mentor's "patriotism and statesmanship beyond party." Ike had at least lived to see his Republican protege in the White House, a long-held dream. Lyndon Johnson, who, while in office, consulted Eisenhower frequently, paid tribute to "this good man and noble leader." Once a bitterly outspoken foe, Harry Truman, now 84, remembered that before the two men were political opponents, they were "comrades in arms. And I cannot forget his services...