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...time of the riots over Autherine Lucy's admission, he wrote: "I vote that we ourselves choose to abolish [segregation], if for no other reason than, by voluntarily giving the Negro the chance for whatever equality he is capable of, we will stay on top; he will owe us gratitude; where, if his equality is forced on us by law, compulsion from the outside, he will be on top from being the victor, the winner against opposition. And no tyrant is more ruthless than he who was only yesterday the oppressed, the slave...
...consumption-oriented economy of planned obsolescence, I think we owe A.T. & T. special thanks for "the thrifty conviction that every piece of installed equipment ought to be good for 40 years." The realization that there is at least an oasis of such belief in an economy of 90-day guarantees of doubtful merit is like water to one dying of thirst...
...Branco's tough old War Minister Artur da Costa e Silva went on TV last week to remind everyone that the military will stand for no monkeyshines. "Go and pay now, gentlemen," he warned, "so that we do not have to come and get it from you. You owe a great deal to the revolution; and the government needs that money...
...Houston last week, Giant Pitcher Juan Marichal, whose own 6-0 record has helped keep San Francisco in the race for first place since the start of the season, walked up to Willie in mock anger: "You didn't hit any homers the last time I pitched-you owe me two." "Have a heart," chirped Mays. "This is a big ballpark." He then slammed one into the left-field seats in the third inning, put a second in the right-centerfield seats (with a man on base) in the fifth, for good measure singled to left in the seventh...
...abstract, blotchy strokes on her canvases certainly don't owe much to her old man. And that is just how Jeanne Modigliani, 45, likes it. "Had my name not been Modigliani I would have started painting years ago," said she. In fact, the only thing the twice-married Parisian artist has in common with Papa Amedeo is her painting signature, which is almost identical. But that is enough. Visiting in Israel to set up her first major solo show next month, she offered eight small works for sale. Within two hours all were snapped...