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...Federal Trade Commission under Franklin Roosevelt, and as a crusadingly liberal public servant under two other Democratic Presidents, James McCauley Landis was known as an unyielding champion of integrity in law and government. But last month (TIME, Aug. 9) Landis appeared in a Manhattan Federal Court to plead guilty on charges of failing to file federal income-tax returns on $360,000, which he earned from 1956 to 1960. It was not, he insisted, that he had intended to be a tax cheater. It was just that he had been too busy to fill out his tax returns. Last week...
...show; a boss makes decisions, wrong or right, almost in spite of his advisers. Internationally it can raise a Latin negotiator to his full height with a proud rejection of proffered aid -even though his country must have it and sooner or later may have to plead for it. And it makes retreat and compromise so impossible that in Cuba, for example, men who should be natural allies through mutual hatred of Fidel Castro cannot cooperate because one would then become leader of the other...
...indicted and probably convicted on a felony, with a term of two to ten years? What a joke? I then had the choice of sacrificing the principles which brought me down here: non-cooperation with the whites, except on our own terms; non-violence (I would have had to plead guilty to throwing a brick); complete reliance on SNCC and its resources. And, since our attorney, C.B. King, a Negro, had not been informed of the violence charges by the police, I had to make the decision without advice as to the legal possibilities of the alternatives...
...this love and skill should be lavished on a tiny private altar devoted to the Virgin Mary, for she was revered throughout the Middle Ages as both "the Queen of Heaven and the Mother of All." The act of suckling her infant had symbolic importance, for she could plead with the son she had suckled as no one else on behalf of sinners she thought worthy of heaven...
...road that cuts through the green hills along the border. Under such pressure Duvalier finally relented and at week's end allowed the asylees to begin flying out of Haiti. Color Line. With most Latin American nations standing against him, Duvalier sent an emissary flying to Manhattan to plead his case before the United Nations Security Council. Haiti's Foreign Minister René Chalmers pictured poor Negro Haiti as surrounded on all sides by enemies. "The Haitian people are determined to defend their sovereignty and independence, and in so doing they are defending the cause of the black...