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...provision range from doubts about the measure's constitutionality to skepticism about its enforceability, many and perhaps most of them are based on a sad but inescapable fact: Americans as a whole are not yet prepared to live side by side with Negroes in racially mixed communities, and resent pressures to force the Negro on them...
...would destroy the west front's unique architectural beauty. They want the crumbling façade restored, point out that damaged walls have been successfully repaired in such far older buildings as London's St. Paul's Cathedral and the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. They also resent the fact that Stewart is an engineer rather than an architect and ridicule the "Mussolini Modern" aspect of the huge-and hugely expensive-Rayburn House Office Building, erected under his aegis...
...Second Chance. What would be included? Virtually everything, from a man's school records to his employment history, from his traffic violations to his religious affiliations, from his military service to his credit rating. Those who resent this computer snoopery decry it as "a great, expensive, electronic garbage pail" that defiles every American's right to keep his private life private. Representative Gallagher goes so far as to predict that private homes will have to take the same precautions that embassies are forced to take now: "The essential ingredients of life will be carried on in soundproof, peep...
...cartoonist, Scarfe exhibits an almost fatal flaw: they argue that he lacks moral discrimination. "A great talent," says Punch Editor Bernard Hollowood, "but he's too much concerned with nostrils, nipples and navels." Scarfe could reply that his critics are too cocksure of their own politics and resent his lack of dogma. "I try to avoid any political bias in my cartoons," says Scarfe, who does indeed heap abuse on every shade of opinion. "I'm neither for the right nor for the left. I simply must deride what I consider unjust...
...never even says "shucks" in the presence of ladies, Jim Ryun inspires an awful lot of antagonism. New Zealand's Peter Snell, who was then the world record holder for the mile, explained why on the eve of last summer's A.A.U. championships. Snarled Snell: "I resent having anybody that young in my kind of race." He resented it a good deal more next day, when Ryun won the A.A.U. mile, beating the New Zealander to the tape in 3 min. 55.3 sec.-the fastest time ever recorded by an American...