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Lyndon Johnson has not seen the French President since John Kennedy's funeral. Robert Kennedy's visit, of course, had no visibly warming effect on Franco-American relations. Though France's main contribution to the war so far has been to urge unilateral U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam, the New York Senator predicted: "France and General de Gaulle are going to play an important role in any successful effort we undertake to find a solution to the trouble in Viet...
...them up, only to help the jury get things straight. He shuns anger: "It's not a useful emotion." Yet in summing up, he pulls all emotional stops: his rhetoric sweeps and soars. Williams is inevitably compared with F. Lee Bailey, a more recently risen criminal lawyer. The main difference between them lies in the cases they handle. Bailey specializes in violence-tinged sensation involving such up-from-nowhere types as Dr. Samuel Sheppard, Carl Coppolino and the Boston Strangler. Williams is more the seeker of equal justice for well-known but scandal-haunted clients...
...main criticism of The Negro Family came from middle-class liberals, black and white. The charge was that the report raised the spectre of Negro inferiority. Moynihan was at complete liberty to demolish these arguments, as he does in his Commentary article. Obviously certain problems--illegitimacy (that is, reported births out of wedlock), lack of education, inferior housing, and unsanitary living conditions--simply go along with poverty and discrimination...
...afternoon, one pink-sweatered Cliffie sated on a chair in the main reading room...
This demand was supported by a paper written by Dr. Payton analyzing the report....Dr. Payton's main assertion was that the report had declared that the employment and income gap between Negroes and whites was closing (where, in fact, the report had said exactly the opposite...