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...Luther King, winner of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Each has explored broad pathways to Negro advancement: Randolph in the labor movement, Wilkins by affirming legal rights, King by awakening the nation's conscience, Young by opening up economic opportunity. None of the advances came easily or swiftly...
...None of those who urged a Marshall Plan for the cities named the original author of the plan. Politicians rarely do-and that is one of the problems with which the Negro moderates must cope. Actually, the sort of work Young does rarely brings him public notice, but knowledgeable observers are aware of its value. "No matter who is shouting for Negro rights in the streets," says Clarence Hunter, spokesman for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, "you must still have Young to go inside and deal for the jobs and the training." Says Young: "You can holler, protest, march...
Several Catholic orders, ranging from the Carmelite nuns to the Capuchin friars, practice the rule of silence. None has observed it as strictly as the Trappist monks who, since their founding in 1098, have made an article of conscience St. Benedict's warning that "those who talk much cannot avoid sin." Trappists have normally been allowed to speak only when intoning the Gregorian chant at High Mass, reciting prayers at five other daily services, and when it is necessary to address superiors...
...Barnett ticket is the one that will bring the Negro out of political obscurity and into political significance not only in Mississippi, but in the nation." Barnett immediately blasted it as a political trick. Meredith sounds convincingly sincere as he travels through Mississippi, ruining Barnett by saying that none of the candidates offer any real attraction to Negroes, but that Barnett has shown an industrial program that will provide jobs for Negroes...
Some scientists believe that small foreshocks may signal an earthquake days or even months before it occurs. Others are certain that changes in surface features and sea level are visible to the naked eye hours before some earthquakes. But none of this adds up to a workable warning system: earthquakes are caused by conditions so deep within the earth that they cannot be studied with present tools and knowledge...