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...SNCC and its resources. And, since our attorney, C.B. King, a Negro, had not been informed of the violence charges by the police, I had to make the decision without advice as to the legal possibilities of the alternatives. It was a struggle, but I am glad for my sake and the Movement's sake that I stuck with it. I apologize for all melodramatics...
According to McClelland, the economic progress of a country is determined by the motivations of the people who comprise the nation. The attitude of the people toward achievement for its own sake is closely linked to economic development. If a nation is comprised of individuals who are striving for achievement, then the nation will advance economically...
...treat the chamber-music series as a sort of classical jam session. Thomas Schippers, who conducted the Spoleto Messiah, stopped by to play piano duets with a series regular, John Browning. Last week Browning backed up U.S. Conductor Robert La Marchina (Traviata), who was up early for the sake of a tuneful Rachmaninoff piano-cello sonata. What's more, the musicians' enthusiasm for the series seems to be shared by an Italian concert public long uninterested in chamber music. "One of the most original and happily realized formulas of the festival," glowed Rome's II Giornale...
...Times, it damages U.S. prestige abroad. "Unfortunately, we now present an image to many non-Americans that is none too attractive: the picture of a nation obsessed with money and materialism." Just as firmly on the other side was the New York Daily News: "Well, for Pete's sake, why not? These dauntless men take their lives in their hands, and those of them which come back alive from outer space should be allowed to cash in legitimately on their adventures...
...such feelings, it would not be enough to extend his hotel chain merely for the sake of profit. His international expansion becomes a Hilton plan for world peace in which "people gather together in our hotels and get along with one another." "We think we are helping out in the struggle that is going on in the cold war today with world travel," says Hilton. "These hotels are examples of free enterprise that the Communists hate to see." He likes to say that "we beat Communism into the Caribbean by ten years," and one of his top financial backers, Henry...