Word: marches
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Outlet for Rage. Martin Luther King last week set in motion plans for a massive march on Washington around April 1 that he has described as a "last, desperate try at nonviolence" and "an outlet for the rage in the ghetto." But the time may have passed when King or anyone else can provide what he calls "an alternative to a long, hot summer." The riot commission appointed by Johnson after last summer's Detroit eruption has reportedly concluded that where normal channels for achieving change are choked off, Negroes have often found revolt the most effective...
...quitter. To knock down all ten duckpins at an alley at Franklin, N.H., he took 34 balls. Pursuing his presidential hopes, Romney is proving every whit as persistent. In a valiant effort to blunt the 3-to-l edge enjoyed by Richard Nixon in the Granite State's March 12th Republican primary, Romney last week wound up his first five days of campaigning with 11,826 hands shaken and a firm belief that reports of his imminent political death are premature...
Carefully following the original Red format, the two Look senior editors-Democrats both-grouped Johnson's sayings under 30 categories such as "The Long March Toward the Great Society" and "Humble Origins of the People's Servant." Under the chapter head "Humility and Self-Criticism," there is a meaningful blank space. All told, Shepherd and Wren gathered about 300 quotations from Johnson-his folksiest and most fulsome. Simon & Schuster, which plans to publish the $2 booklet in March with a limp red plastic cover similar to Mao's, reports keen early bookstore interest. Some facets of Lyndonthink...
...EDUCATION AND SELF-CULTIVATION. "And I think you can truly say in the years to come, that on this day of February-the twenty-ninth, is it? March the first? On this day, March first, Monday, is it?-on this day, March the first, I sat in the White House at 6:10 and along with my colleagues from all over the nation, I participated in the meeting and in the conference that gave America leadership in preparing the minds of her little ones."-Washington, March...
Most years, the high point of the college basketball season comes in March, when the nation's top two teams fight it out in the N.C.A.A. playoffs. This year, the big night came early. Last week, in Judge Roy Hofheinz's Houston Astrodome, 52,000 fans, the biggest crowd ever to watch a college basketball game, turned out to see U.C.L.A. take on the University of Houston in the best game of the season. When it began, U.C.L.A., undefeated in 47 straight games, ranked first in the nation; Houston, unbeaten in 17 straight, was second. At the final...