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...assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968. By a Department of Justice count, the number of racial disturbances of all sizes has fallen off sharply in 1969 from the two previous summers (see chart, next page). The 1965 holocaust of Watts left 34 dead and $40 million in property damage; 43 died in the Detroit riots of 1967 and damage there was also $40 million. This summer's biggest outbreak was a three-night June melee without fatalities in Omaha that destroyed $750,000 worth of property...
Slightly Surrealistic. Well, it helps to have been a Wall Street lawyer-in more ways than one. Consider the ledgerdemain of the San Clemente spread. The price for the estate of 21 acres, including the large, Spanish-style villa now known familiarly as White House West, was $1.4 million. The terms were $400,000 down and $100,000 per year, plus 7½% interest per year on the initial outstanding debt of $1,000,000. The sale called for the principal to be paid off within five years. Normally, such an undertaking would require prodigious amounts of cash: annual payments...
...Minh's life was dedicated to the creation of a unified Viet Nam, free from foreign control, and the 19 million people of his tortured land suffered mightily from his total devotion to that vision. Even so, they affectionately knew him as "Bac Ho" (Uncle Ho). So did many in the South. No national leader alive today has stood so stubbornly for so long before the enemy's guns. His death will have inevitable and far-reaching repercussions in North Viet Nam, in Asia and beyond...
...longer to be a possession, a commodity, a glorified nursemaid, a kept dilettante on the sidelines of the world's imposing work. She would forge her own identity and earn something called "respect." The amusing thing about this, as G. K. Chesterton once pointed out, was that "a million women announced their intention to be free and promptly began taking dictation...
...Prohibition fused the amateurism and catch-as-catch-can national tendencies of the early days of the republic with a more modern, highly organized lust for violence and the quick buck. It fused the need to massacre twelve hundred thousand American Indians and ten million American buffalo, the lynching bees, the draft riots, bread riots, gold riots and race riots, the constant wars, the largest rats in the biogest slums, boxing and football, the loudest music, the most strident and exploitative press with the entire wonderful promise of tomorrow and tomorrow, always dragging the great nation downward...