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...Melvin G. Brown, senior minister of Cambridge's Union Baptist Church and a principal speaker at today's commemoration, emphasized the need to examine specific ways King organized civil rights activism rather than merely admire his more dramatic speeches and accomplishments...
...SCIENTISTS WOULD tackle the subject of this book "Why we are what we are, why we do what we do, why we feel what we feel." And probably fewer could have dealt with it as successfully as Harvard anthropology professor Melvin Konner has in The Tangled Wing...
...that would at least justify the staggering costs. Without a national strategy, Weinberger cannot know if, say, the Navy will need 600 ships by 1990 or if the Air Force is asking for the right mix of expensive F-15s and cheaper F-16s. Even a hard-liner like Melvin Laird, who served as Secretary of Defense for Richard Nixon, questions the sense behind the vast sums. "The Navy is going wild by making all these commitments on ships," Laird says. "It hasn't been proved to me that you need a Navy that large...
...Melvin Maddocks...
...watchdog organizations like the National Black United Front contend, Black men have often been killed by police while reaching into their pockets for identification, or, in one case, a Bible. Arrest situations are tense affairs: officers have accidentally shot each other in moments of confusion. But incidents like the Melvin killing will only repeat themselves if, as Sliwa hopes, we all get into the habit of automatically labelling "them" as "punks...