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...Brown. Actually, it is a wonder that anyone wants the job. California, already the nation's most populous state (19 million), has to cope with explosive problems of growth unparalleled anywhere else in the world. Its annual gross income is greater than that of any full-fledged nation save Russia, West Germany, Britain, France and the U.S. itself. Yet the urgent demands of overloaded schools, insufficient highways, restive racial minorities and ever-rising taxes forever plague the state. Indeed, any headache that afflicts any other state throbs even harder in California-and many of its quandaries have not even...
...Save for her piercing blue eyes, Lillian Smith hardly resembled a pioneering crusader for civil rights. Her manner was retiring, her voice soft and small. But her forceful message cut through the Georgia drawl: Jim Crow demeaned and diminished every Southerner, white or black. "Racial segregation has been a strong wall behind which weak egos have hidden for a long time," she wrote in 1951. She castigated Southern Governors who defied the U.S. Supreme Court's order to integrate the schools. As a result, she said, Southern whites "are losing their freedom to do right, to act as their...
...forms of therapy that can now be started while a baby is still in the womb. When incompatibility of the Rh blood factor between mother and child is serious enough, even a massive transfusion of blood immediately after birth is sometimes too late to save the child. And for such cases doctors have worked out a delicate technique for transfusion in utero. Before they try such major treatment, however, they insert a needle through the mother's abdomen to extract a sample of the amniotic fluid in which the fetus is floating. That sample may help to determine...
...extinction. At the last annual count, there were only 51 of the great birds left on earth (seven are in captivity). That they have survived at all, as Author McNulty shows in this splendidly indignant book, is probably due more to their tenacity than to much publicized efforts to save them. Now the Federal...
After the pathetically rigged Liberal convention, Alex Rose told reporters that his own polls showed that, even if Roosevelt won 500,000 votes, O'Connor would still beat Rockefeller by 600,000. He was, in effect, trying to save his own political skin by doing what he knew in his heart was wrong. He was also recognizing, sadly, the shift of political leverage in New York state from the city liberal to the Upstate Kennedy block. All that remains to be said is that Rose's poll was accurate enough, and that with or without the city liberals, O'Connor...