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...During seven years in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, the past two of them as its chief, the lanky, intense attorney has had action aplenty. He has faced down mobs of angry, riotous Negroes as calmly as he has forced rough-knuckled Southern sheriffs to obey the nation's laws against discrimination. Almost singlehanded, Doar pried open the South's voting booths for the Negro by personally prosecuting more than 30 voting-rights cases in federal court, since 1960 has participated in every major civil rights case from the admission of James Meredith into...
Only 13 hours before Gary's polls opened, the panel of judges issued a six-part injunction to foil the fraud. More than 1,000 false names were ordered removed from the voters' lists, and officials were sternly warned to obey election laws. With rumors of violence spreading in some white neighborhoods, Gary's entire 268-man police force was put on a twelve-hour shift, and Democratic Governor Roger D. Branigin ordered 300 state troopers and 5,000 National Guardsmen to be ready to move into the city on 30 minutes' notice. As it turned...
...classroom at Chicago's Reading Research Foundation, an attractive blonde teacher brusquely ordered her pupils to "move one-quarter turn." When seven-year-old Kim Helton failed to obey, the teacher bore down on the girl with all the authority of a Marine drill sergeant. "Well, do it!" she yelled. "Move! Move! Move!" Slowly, and blinking back the tears, Kim made the turn. At another class, a young Negro boy began to cry when his teacher rasped out a command to "Think! Wake Up!" Glaring, the teacher snapped back: "Knock it off, Bobby." The sniffling stopped...
...bodyguards and chauffeur, then hustled the three men off to jail. Last month Duvalier dismissed Dominique from the army "for the good of the service," and ordered his son-in-law to return to Haiti to stand trial for "desertion, mutiny and treason." Dominique is not likely to obey, for his father-in-law is convinced that he was the man behind the April bombings and the ringleader of a planned insurrection...
...much believe in-could it really be something else?" Many laymen, baffled by the scientists anyway, might find the overthrow of all their lore quite entertaining. But most scientists insist that their laws are universal; even the motion of distant stars and the nuclear reactions within them appear to obey the laws of terrestrial science...