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THAT mystical role has still not found its hero; perhaps it never will. It lingered long and lovingly when it happened upon Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, but then it moved on???still searching. Yet Nasser came closer to filling the role than any other man since the 12th century warrior Saladin or perhaps the powerful 9th century Caliph of Baghdad Harun al-Rashid. A burly, broad-shouldered army officer, son of a lower-middle-class postal clerk, Nasser overturned a rotting monarchy 18 years ago and brought visions of prosperity to his own country and hope for new unity...
...pictures a litter of cocktail glasses, pill bottles and an ashtray overflowing with cigarette butts, and asks parents: "Ever wonder why your kid doesn't take you seriously when you lecture him about drugs?" A poster about drugs in psychedelic colors asks kids: "Will they turn you on???Or will they turn...
That tax-reform bill was something had not reckoned on??? at least yet. It was a classic case of a Congress of one party forcing on a President of the other party something he not particularly want, though it was from the rancorous kind of battle Democrat Harry Truman fought almost weekly with the Republican 80th Congress. The habitual formula ? the President proposes, Congress disposes?was turned around...
Just lead us, just lead us, lead us on???We've got to get home...
...Martin Luther King Jr. was in Birmingham's city jail last April, a group of white clergymen wrote a public statement criticizing him for "unwise and untimely" demonstrations. King wrote a reply?on pieces of toilet paper, the margins of newspapers, and anything else he could get his hands on???and smuggled it out to an aide in bits and pieces. Although in the tumble of events then and since, it never got the notice it deserved, it may yet live as a classic expression of the Negro revolution of 1963. Excerpts from the letter, which was addressed...