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...stop. "You better get knives, you white niggers," she snarled at white marchers. "You're gonna need 'em." A pickup truck careened down the column as a white man in the passenger's seat flailed at the marchers with a club. When the demonstrators knelt to pray, they were sprayed by a white tough with a hose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: The New Racism | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...pray tell, did Wilson wait until his senior year to apply for an academic deferment? Why did he not plan ahead for an obligation that has become as inevitable as income taxes? Why did he avoid the ROTC program, which takes at least some of the uncertainty out of pre-Army life? Come off it Gary, David, Douglas, Paul! How about a little less whining and a little more determination as we thank God that we were not born in time for Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Omaha Beach and Guam. Those young guys were inconvenienced too, you know. Because they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 17, 1966 | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston absolves the undergraduate who wore a bishop's vestments and who sprinkled water on the Harvard football team during the Holy Cross game. "I hope and pray there will be no disciplinary action taken against you," Cardinal Cushing writes. Alas, the Administrative Board has already admonished the prankster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A la Recherche de 1965-66 | 6/14/1966 | See Source »

...harrowing than the final phase of the trip. For in the long moments of the last drop, Surveyor's own computers and radar were issuing the necessary orders. And back on earth, 230,930 miles away, the craft's creators could do no more-no more than pray that their design and pre-launch calculations were all correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Payoff Was Perfection | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

...head in the freakish Atlantic Where it pours bean green over blue In the waters off beautiful Nauset. I used to pray to recover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Blood Jet Is Poetry | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

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