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...weakness of community is shown too in the constant plea that the family must bear the burden of teaching the culture. In a real community, there is an economy, with its crafts and its ideas. The shape of the community makes the culture evident. But, lacking this strong community, kids invent their own, reviving the feudal code of Alfred the Great, marking out safe territories, and making provision for special classes of revenge...
...days Representative James Roosevelt will make a plea on the House floor for the abolition of the Committee, Wilkenson declared. He expressed the hope that Roosevelt will get support such as that which came from San Francisco last May, when 5,000 students opposed the Committee's hearings into alleged communist infiltration of California faculties...
...entrusted to him," he sternly declared. "He has deprived many citizens of their fundamental liberties. And now he is involving the country in an awful civil war. Therefore, I have decided to dismiss the government." Naming moderate Senate President Joseph Ileo, 38, as new Premier, he added a hopeful plea that the army lay down its arms...
...Powers was cooperating not so much with his own accusers as with the accusers of his government and his country. He was not, in the language of the American criminal courts, simply 'copping a plea' for himself. He was copping a plea for the U.S. When he accepted his job-and at $30,000 a year it was an infinitely better job than his background could ever otherwise have found for him -he took his chances. Here was no little boy who had lost his way in the Soviet labyrinths. Here was a man on a high mission...
...remember the name of the airfield. I think it could have been Bahrein.") His briefing from Shelton was short-an hour and a half in which "I barely had time to study my maps." Powers claimed no knowledge of two unmarked survivor maps and the plea in 14 languages ("I need food and shelter; you will be rewarded") that the Russians claimed to have found in his flight suit. Said he: "Someone must have stuck them in my pockets...