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...INSTANT FAME. TV, Agnew charged, can create issues overnight and turn nobodies into national figures. But Agnew's own examples suggested that this process has limits. He mentioned Stokely Carmichael; in Carmichael's case, notoriety happened, at least in part, for complicated psychological reasons having to do with white guilt. Agnew also mentioned George Lincoln Rockwell; in his case, only minor notoriety resulted, and only assassination transformed him into a national figure...
Superior Court Justice Robert Sullivan, who presided over the two-day trial, said he would pass sentence on Offner this morning at 10 a. m., and ordered him held in custody overnight in the Middlesex County House of Correction in Billerica...
...Morning opens the evening of one-act plays with promises of (perhaps) a new day, a new world. In the midst of Harlem, a black family-a little like good old Kingtish and Sapphire, only a hellever lot tougher-have just popped a few pills that turn them white. Overnight. But as should be expected, devolving into a white man isn't that simple a proposition. In effect the play becomes a roller coaster excursion through a series of assumed racial identities (along with their accompanying crises) until. finally. Horovitz's white blacks decide to stick with their blackness...
...rarest of all Americans, the model diplomat. Excessively sharp of mind and tongue-and not at all afraid to show the biting edge of either-Acheson was not destined for public popularity as Harry Truman's Secretary of State, particularly in an era when careers could be smashed overnight by little more than whispered innuendoes of "Communist" or "leftwing" sympathies. Present confusions and elapsed time, however, have created new perspectives on the diplomatic problems and achievements of the Truman Administration...
...first it seemed little more than a routine civil suit brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Overnight, however, the case burgeoned into a Washington scandal involving the office of House Speaker John Mc-Cormack. The first to be tarnished was Dr. Martin Sweig, 46, McCormack's $36,000-a-year aide for the past 24 years, who was suspended by the Speaker last week pending a complete inquiry...