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It is even more difficult to conceive of all the ways--and Tygiel recounts many--in which baseball desegregation helped directly speed national efforts. Just consider the effect of teams bringing Blacks down to spring training. For Robinson's Dodgers, according to Tygiel, the tours through the South "challenged deeply...
"I've been to a lot of rallies, let me tell you, a lot of rallies," Palumba says. "And this was special. Families, yes. And I noticed the elderly there. People dressed for church. And you're not going to see many [marches that are] multi-racial... It was amazing...
Overseas, the reaction was no less emphatic. At least four West European governments summoned Soviet diplomats and delivered sternly worded protests about the shooting down of Flight 007. Italy's huge Communist Party fired off a demand to Moscow for an explanation of "this crime"; Japan's Communist...
If the dream was there, the fire was not. The reprise had a forced quality, as if the participants had been jaded by all the marches and speeches of the intervening two decades. Billed as a "March for Jobs, Peace and Freedom," the gathering marshaled proponents of a bewildering variety...
In a 17th century brick building on Paris' Boulevard de Port-Royal, once the abbey where the Mathematician Blaise Pascal underwent religious conversion, a quite different kind of experiment is taking place. Into a small room of the Baudelocque Maternity Hospital marches a nurse bearing a tiny, wrinkled infant...