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...accuses Humphrey of tardiness in supporting civil rights; as early as 1948 he forced the Democratic convention to throw out a milder civil rights plank and include his stronger version. No one accuses him of a superficial interest in disarmament; in 1955 he proposed and helped pass a resolution to set up a disarmament subcommittee of which he became chairman. And no one accuses him of representing limited interests, of lacking imagination: he was first, for example, to suggest a Peace Corps and Medicare under Social Security...
...with a new wife and a new title, Caldwell has turned in almost the same text ("Dynamic. Depressing. Open-all-night. Closed-for-the-season. Everybody welcome. White only. Colored entrance. Bloated with wealth and despairing in poverty. Aggressive and reactionary."). But the 1964-model Caldwell & Company seems much milder, and the result of the collaboration is a sort of filter-tip Tobacco Road...
...wealthiest men in British Central Africa; he has built two housing developments, owns a furniture factory, a construction business and operates a gold mine. Lawrence A. Hautz, 54, sold his successful Milwaukee insurance agency ten years ago to take his arthritic wife to the milder climate of Salisbury, also in Southern Rhodesia. They longed for a U.S.-style motel to stay in, so he built his own: a 28-room luxury motel on 100 acres of virgin veld nine miles outside the city...
...Commission's proposals generated no great enthusiasm Friday, but the reaction was milder than had been expected. Many in the crowd apparently agreed with Alan McClennen, Cambridge's planning director, who said, "I don't like the results, but it's not their [the MDC's] fault." A bill passed in June, 1962, directed the MDC to build the underpasses...
...still render will be lost to the country." The judge, George Sowemimo, who was openly distressed by the entire proceeding, said he had no choice but to convict. In a nine-hour decision delivered last week, he gave Awolowo ten years in prison for treasonable felony, just a bit milder than the 15-year prison term meted out to Awolowo's crony, Politico Tony Enahoro, a few days earlier...