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...Republicans are not ignoring or even writing off the blacks, the Chicanos or the other minorities. Last month almost 2,500 blacks gathered in Washington for a $100-a-plate Republican fund-raising dinner, an event that would have seemed improbable not long before. Said Floyd McKissick, for mer director of CORE: "I don't believe you can get from the Democratic Par ty what you can get from the Republican Party." Republican literature is al ready pointing out to blacks that, among other things, the Nixon Administration has 1) doubled federal grants to primarily black colleges, 2) tripled...
...other people can stand." He pours out his frustration to a rich man named Zagreus who has no legs. Zagreus tells him, "I'd accept even worse - blind, dumb, anything, as long as I feel in my belly that dark fire that is me, me alive." Mer sault is unappeased and unabashed...
...interested but not surprised at the complaints of Do-Gooder Frank Ferree's neighbors about his house. If his neighbors had his spirit of brotherhood, they would take brush and ham mer in hand and help him put his "damned eyesore" in order...
...planners has been provided with government funds to oversee development outside the capital. The results are visible, for example, in rapidly expanding port facilities at Dunkirk and Le Havre. Nowhere has life changed so much as along the western Riviera, where builders are hard at work on Fos-sur-Mer, a new port that will provide entry to a vast inland shipping route. By 1980, when dredging work along the Rhone and Rhine rivers is completed, vessels will be able to reach the North Sea from the Mediterranean via Fos, thus avoiding the long trip around the Iberian Peninsula...
...eight weeks, the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee has held hearings on organized crime. A parade of witnesses, many of them for- mer mobsters, testifying with immunity, have sketched the outlines of gambling, theft and corruption on which crime empires are built. Last week big Vinnie Teresa, a rotund (300 Ibs.) loan shark now serving concurrent prison terms for stealing securities and car theft, provided a Runyonesque retrospective of his life and crimes...