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...head coach Joe Bernal puts the whole thing into perspective though. "They've been the champs five years in a row," he said, "and they just won't fold overnight. They sense it's gonna be a shootout today...
Singer-Writer Randy Newman's hit single Short People has hit the Top Ten on the pop charts almost overnight. But along the way it has burned a lot of Americans who stand well under average height (reckoned at 5 ft. 9 in. for men and just under 5 ft. 4 in. for women). Among other slurs, the song says that smaller folks have "little hands/ And little eyes/ And they walk around/ Tellin' great big lies." The Little People of America, a national outfit boasting 2,000 members who are 4 ft. 11 in. or under...
That was nothing compared to the fire he kindled as a delegate to the 1948 Democratic National Convention. He became an overnight liberal celebrity when he made a public demand for a strong civil rights plank in the party platform. "The time has arrived," he told the convention, "for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights." The plank was adopted, provoking the creation of the Dixiecrat Party, which threatened to cut deeply into the Democrats' normally heavy Southern vote. Defeat seemed assured...
...investors, the Federal Reserve Board has raised American interest rates another notch.* It boosted the discount rate, the charge imposed on Federal Reserve loans to member banks, by a half-point, to 6½%, and raised its target for the "Fed funds" rate, which banks charge one another on overnight loans, from 6½% to about 6¾%. Other rates moved up in sympathy; the prime rate on banks' loans to their best business borrowers rose from...
...first, he didn't have to travel far for material--Cambridge is the center for so many Neo-Oriental movements that it has been called "Benares-on-the-Charles." Interest in the Orient has not sprung up overnight in this country like some magical circle of mushrooms. A fascination with the faraway and the unfamiliar is especially pronounced among Americans whose ancestors must have had a similar burning inquisitiveness (as well as economic need) to leave the Old World for the New. And the China trade, even more than the old legends of Marco Polo or the march...