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...Certainly everyone who was in court that day (Nathan Berkovitz, incidentally, was not) to support Emeka left with the feeling that racism had thoroughly infiltrated the judicial system. Emeka was acquitted, yes; but how many Blacks, who do not go to Harvard, who cannot pack the courtroom, who cannot obtain prestigious character witnesses, who cannot afford a good lawyer, land in jail because of the biases of our system of rule...
...problem of getting about were spectacularly original. One Brooklyn man telephoned Gloria McGill, owner of Chateau Stables, to request an elephant fitted with a platform and chair to take him from his home to his job on Staten Island. McGill said she would need 30 days to obtain a suitable beast (at $1,200 a day); the customer settled for a horse and carriage to pick...
Since the Federal Farm Loan Act was passed in 1916, Government credit programs have helped borrowers who could not obtain money from regular savings institutions. One of the most successful was the Rural Electrification Administration, which, beginning in 1936, provided the money that lighted American farm communities. More recently, Dwight Eisenhower's Sputnik- inspired student loan program helped deserving kids go to college. Federal agencies frequently lend money directly on bargain terms. Some Farmers Home Administration credits carry interest rates of 1%. More often, the Government guarantees loans from private sources, such as the proposed $1.5 billion line...
...Says Ben Wattenberg, of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think tank: "At some point in this whole statistical system, somebody has got to do a count. Nothing else works unless you have a base number that you can actually, physically verify." The long and arduous effort to obtain this base number begins this week...
...boycott. Much depends on how fast the boycotters can organize their alternate games, which Cutler calls the "WorldClass International Sports Festival." He envisions a series of events next August and September in a number of locales around the world. Funding for the games, however, will be difficult to obtain. Cutler claims that revenues from TV coverage could help, but executives at NBC and ABC decline to say if they would bid on coverage, and CBS, like the undecided nations, is "awaiting developments...