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...born, in Hartselle, a town of 8,000 in north central Alabama. "There is a decency about people here," he says. He was happy with the racial progress that was being made in Alabama until George Wallace became Governor. "I suppose the reason I keep involved is that I resent Wallace's effort to turn back the clock...
...pinned on luring away some of Intelsat's present members with promises of greater authority in Intersputnik's affairs. Whoever joins, the Russians promise, will have equal voting rights in Intersputnik's council, whatever the country's size or share. Several smaller members of Intelsat resent the fact that management is heavily weighted in the U.S.'s favor, with voting rights allocated in proportion to a country's share in ownership and capital investment...
Where did some of the angry natives so resent a local benefactor that they wore buttons proclaiming "No Man Is an Island"? See BUSINESS, Trading Up Nantucket...
Whatever the cause, Negro women resent the pattern, fearing that whites will steal away their most promising young men. Yet most black girls refuse to play the game with white men, who, they say scornfully, lack today's essential Quality of "soul." There is a deeper deterrent too. Many Negro girls say they are still haunted by the image of the white "massa" coming down the hill to take his pick of slave women. Observes Nancy Lou Smith, a svelte 24-year-old Manhattan career girl from Texas: "For many white males, my skin is still a badge that...
...resent this society because we are forced to be consumers," says one Sorbonne revolutionary. "The pressure is on us from the time we are young to buy, to go into debt, to get the Frigidaire, the car. Life for a Frigidaire? This is the life our parents want us to live. For us, the only value is man, the only thing that matters is man." Sociologist Alain Touraine, 42, agrees that France "has become a society of things, not of ideas. The students reject not only the things but the authorities who direct that society-they do not believe...