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...would benefit greatly by a revival of local leadership outside Government." He warned a Cleveland audience last April: "It will be a sad end to a great enterprise if the epitaph for our society turns out to read: 'All the best people bemoaned the quality of leadership, but none sought to lead.' " The coalition could well provide the means to erase that epitaph; headed by Negro Labor Leader A. Philip Randolph and Time...
...House and youngest political boss in the U.S., walked through his Fifth District to sample opinion among its many ethnic groups. Green, whose father, the late Representative Bill Green, ran the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee before him, said he found "a hunger for peace in Viet Nam." Yet virtually none of his constituents favored U.S. withdrawal, and many complained that Johnson had not acted firmly enough in seeking return of the Pueblo...
CONSIDER the human machine in middle age: atrociously maintained, rusty from disuse. None of its parts-the bellows, the tubes, the pump-function as efficiently as they once did. The muscles have degenerated into blancmange. If, in an emergency, the demand for air rises abruptly from the idling requirement of six to eight quarts a minute to 100 quarts or more, the maw gulps like that of a beached carp. The heart throbs about two to three times its customary rate, pumping blood through pipes thickened by sedimentary deposits and grown inelastic with...
...Watching themselves, most participants concentrated at first on what they considered their undesirable features, such as overweight, poor proportions or aging. But after they had seen the video tapes, most were able to see themselves less critically. The consensus: "Each body seems to fit nicely with each face." While none of the group reported an instant cure of an old, severe neurosis, many found that soon after they shed their clothes they also shed inferiority feelings about their own bodies. As a result, they were less tense and embarrassed about some aspects...
Continued emphasis on military action and escalation produces public attitudes in the U.S. which expect a military solution where there can be none and therefore a false optimism about the prospects of victory. When that "victory" doesn't come, this momentum pushes for further escalation...