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...will for what? In a series of legislative acts affirming the equality of races, Congress declared the nation's objective to be the achievement of a biracial society. The greatest obstacle to that goal is the tense mood of fear, mistrust and hatred that corrodes race relations. Although a majority of blacks still subscribes to the ideal of integration, the increasingly vocal militants preach an American apartheid that would ultimately isolate Negroes from the mainstream of American life (see box p. 23). That such a solution would not only be accepted but welcomed by a great many whites...
...Sandy Koufax, Kim Novak and Ringo Starr. They are known as southpaws, gallock-handers, chickie paws and scrammies-and on down a whole list of slangy synonyms whose very length testifies to the fact that for centuries left-handers have been looked upon with suspicion, if not with actual mistrust...
...Left and New. Yet he argued that war critics had a duty to offer realistic suggestions about how the U.S. might extricate itself from Viet Nam. As elder statesman of the Old Left, he viewed the New Left with some mistrust. Said Thomas: "I by no means denounce all civil disobedience, but some of the forms of it advocated and practiced by some members of the New Left seem to me to do more harm than good to the cause of peace...
Jack R. Edwalt, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, also finds that other anxieties contribute to the fear of flying. "Trouble with the boss, an impending tax struggle, problems with a new product-the airplane can aggravate these." Often, too, there is simply "mistrust of the gadget." Polaroid's manager of community relations, Bob Palmer, who cheerfully admits, "I get tanked up while the airplane does," agrees. "It's really a hatred of being dependent on something mechanical," he says. Then too, executives who feel that they must always be in command may be bothered...
...district's mistrust of many veteran teachers is often unfair, if understandable. The menacing atmosphere of most slum schools is enough to cow even the most devoted teacher, who in any case is seldom equipped professionally to deal with the specialized problems of the deprived child-let alone the disturbed or disruptive student who is too often rejected as "uneducable...