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...days, the watchman would see a cockroach running down the corridor, and he'd spray the whole place with DDT," Williams complained. "Of course I went right out through the ceiling. They can put you out of business overnight...
...chief of field operations of the U.S. Marshals Service. He was referring to Florida Governor Claude Kirk's week-long theater of defiance against the Federal Government. Kirk had refused to allow a court-ordered school busing plan to take effect in Manatee County. His resistance wilted overnight, however, when Federal District Judge Ben Krentzman finally lost patience, cited him for contempt and threatened to fine him $10,000 a day if he continued to obstruct the court order...
...University succumb to anarchy? The question was real enough in the tumultuous spring of 1968 after the student rebellion had paralyzed the Morningside Heights campus. The situation called for a skilled negotiator, a man expert at the resolution of conflicts. Such a man emerged from the law-school faculty. Overnight, Professor Michael I. Severn, 36, found himself struggling to reunite and reform the badly shaken university. Last week the trustees rewarded Severn's largely successful efforts by naming him to succeed William C. Warren as dean of Columbia Law School...
...After shuffling through one assumed identity after another all his life, he has little to comfort him but a purple neckscarf and his selfesteem. Besides his disappointments as an artist, his principal frustration is the failure to secure a "vocation" in the Church of Rome, to which he converted "overnight" at the age of 26. Not even a lowly "clerk" let alone a prelate, this blustery paranoid and repressed homosexual aspires to be the first English Pontiff since Breakspear in the twelfth century...
Such a change would not erase racism overnight, but today's restive blacks insist that racism is a white, not a black problem. "When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic," observes Jackson. "When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression. That's racism. And this pink-skin worship is pathological. It must be dealt with by psychotherapists and not by politicians...