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When I arrived in Alabama, however, I was surprised. It looked just like the real world. Montgomery and Birmingham could have been in any other state; and even the legendary Selma looked like any Midwest commercial town. There were no border guards to weed out Northerners who had come to...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Southern Schizophrenia: | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

But, as Negro leaders in the South know all too well, this is a showdown that will pass virtually unnoticed in the North. Things have changed a lot since 1954. Then Northern families could see clearly-cut right and wrong. It wasn't hard to sense that the timid black...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: High School Graduates Who Can't READ?! | 9/28/1968 | See Source »

Personal Offense. In spite of that splendid record, the man from the suburbs was never fully attuned to the brutal realities of Baltimore's gritty ghettos. Last spring's riots in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination wrought a peculiar change in Agnew. When he saw the Negroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE COUNTERPUNCHER | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

Uncertain Journey. Trudeau is a fresh phenomenon in Canada's capital, where furled-umbrella stuffiness has long been the norm. He works in an open-necked shirt, often sniffing or fondling a flower on his desk. His Cabinet meetings are as intellectually demanding as his University of Montreal law...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Camelot North | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

The polarizing effect of the Battle of Michigan Avenue spread everywhere. Speaking before the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany declared: "I know what you'd do with that dirty-necked, dirty-mouthed group." It troubles few workingmen nowadays that the American labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Chicago: The Reassessment | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

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