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...graduate, signed by the Red Sox in 1959 for a $20,000 bonus, Radatz sulked at first when he was assigned to the bullpen. "Everybody wants to be a starter," he says. "But I finally realized that the only way I was going to make the majors was to obey orders. If they wanted me to be a starter now, I'd regard it as a demotion. Being a relief man pays good...
There was no violence, no scuffling and no tension. The senior law-enforcement officer present explained to the Negro leaders the meaning of the court order and requested that they obey the court. Upon their refusal, he informed them that they were under arrest, whereupon the entire group of demonstrators (220) marched quietly to the county jail...
...Maryland, where Douglass lived, slaves were regularly flogged by masters who were fond of paraphrasing Scripture. "He that knoweth his master's will, and doeth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes." Douglass knew of a white overseer who shot down a slave for refusing to obey. He tells of a 15-year-old girl who was beaten to death for letting a white baby cry. The slaves were helpless, since their testimony was not accepted in court. Most had to work from sunrise to sunset, and often longer. They ate from a common trough like pigs...
...discuss politics is well up from the McCarthy era, but the association's respected president, Princeton Economist Fritz Machlup, questions some limitations left over from then. In relating national loyalty to scholarly integrity, he wants to keep clear the distinction between citizenship and scholarship. As citizens, professors must obey the law like everyone else, but as scholars, "professors have only one obligation: to search for truth and speak the truth as they...
...last of the nineteenth century rebellions was the most violent one. It started when a freshman refused to obey the instructions of a tutor and was accordingly punished by the administration. His classmates came to his rescue, assembled under Rebellion Elm, and stirred rioting which interrupted classes for two months. Tutors' windows and furniture were smashed, torpedoes were sailed through the Chapel, President Josiah Quincy was hanged in effigy, and explosions violated the virtuous Yard. A number of the rioters received the customary dismissal but at least two were taken to court and tried on a variety of civil charges...