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...appearances at Central Texas College in Killeen, the Space Assembly Facility at Michoud, La., and the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention at Bal Harbour, Fla., Johnson mixed folksiness, fire and factitiousness to concoct a politically potent brew. Over and over again, he poured scorn on "the complainers, the critics, the doubters" and those ubiquitous "nay sayers." Repeatedly he called the roll of his Administration's breakthroughs: Medicare, aid to primary and secondary education, the poverty program and all the rest. Predictably ignoring the fact that he himself slowed down innovation and sought to curb spending increases in the past year...
...sympathy. War and poverty violently propel her into adulthood, giving her no time to mature; beneath the ruthless woman, Miss Leigh always betrays traces of the spoiled young girl. She is not alternately shrewd and charming, but both at once, too huge a character to elicit either admiration or scorn...
This is due in part to a surprising turn of events: The Conference in Kinshasa was moderately successful. At the time of its convening, most observers would have shared Banda's scorn. Many felt that the previous 1966 Addis Ababa meeting represented a ludicrous ending to the futile history of the Organization of African Unity. It showed itself to be utterly disorganized and incapable of coming to grips with any of the major issues, which by October, 1967, had become major crises. President Julius Nyerere remarked simply "Africa is a mess...
...racist governments as paper tigers well within the bounds of containment by their security froces. Just as no one paid much attention to the OAU proclamations on other matters, no one considered the beefing up of guerrilla warfare as much of a threat--yet. But it appears that their scorn was slightly premature. In fact Malawi, not one of the racist target states but an Independent black nation, appears to have been one of the first goals of an increasingly organized movement; the success of other OAU pronouncements bodes ill for Malawi's future with freedom fighters...
...TIME'S trenchant elucidation of patriotism pay tribute to our fighting and dying men in Southeast Asia; may it thunder bolts of ridicule and scorn on the ever-increasing numbers of extreme dissenters who question America's so-called entanglement there...