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...RIGG Wraysbury, England Sir: Lest anyone feel self-righteous about his country's morality status upon reading about Keeler & Co., let him ponder the moral issues contained in your cover story on civil rights, or the column on Tony Pro, or "Two Definitions of Obscenity" in the Press section [June...
...upset. Negro organization officials find themselves riding a crest they cannot control. Negro moderates suffer vilification, or the threat of physical harm, for their moderation. White politicians who have achieved power through their championship of civil rights find themselves hooted by audiences who think they have not been civil righteous enough...
...Burst of Laughter. In the Administration's wording, Title II would apply only to accommodations involved to a "substantial" degree in interstate commerce. That puzzled even Brooklyn's Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a civil-righteous sort if ever there was one. Asked Celler, after Bobby had finished reading his prepared statement: "What is 'substantial'?" Bobby's answer touched off a burst of laughter in the crowded hearing room. Replied he: "More than minimal...
Mills is properly and pompously upset by such exchanges. Stomping about the stage with righteous rage, he eloquently pleads his case for decency in parliamentary fashion against a woman whose mind is unaffected by argument...
...Faculty was certain that their defense of the President and his rotten butter was quite well taken but the undergraduate body was even more self-righteous. The rebellion, once over, was eulogized by one of the insurrectionaries in a Biblical epic called the Book of Harvard...