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...year, the Cleveland Browns' fullback Jimmy Brown, 28, is football's most highly paid player. However, he says in his autobiography, Off My Chest, "the more successful a Negro is, the more difficult it becomes to accept second-class citizenship." He illustrates his proposition soberingly by endorsing the racist Black Muslims. "Does the white man realize that the Black Muslim's attitude toward whites is shared by almost 99% of the Negro population? I protest prejudice, but I am a prejudiced man. The white man has forced me to be prejudiced against...
...brawls in bars. He has been twice divorced, three times married, has fathered six children. His present wife, Judy Starkey, is white. Perpetually bitter, usually unkempt, he rants against racial discrimination and society in general. "Don't call me a jazz musician. The word jazz means nigger, discrimination, second-class citizenship, the back-of-the-bus bit!" he shouts...
...thirds of Canada's 19 million citizens speak English; one-third are fiercely French - in language, culture, temperament. And now some secessionist sentiment is springing up in the province of Quebec, gathering support among French Canadians who have long complained bitterly of second-class citizenship. Pearson has made several concessions giving Quebec more provincial autonomy and French Canadians a stronger voice in the federal government. Many French Canadians consider this too little, too late...
Until 1908, the U.S. was in Vatican eyes still technically a mission land, and even after that, to many Protestants, Catholicism remained a second-class faith for third-class citizens-the Irish, Polish, German, Hungarian and Italian immigrants who brought their religion with them in the steerage. Now Roman Catholicism has become by far the nation's largest and richest Christian denomination. The latest edition of the Official Catholic Directory says that there are 44.8 million Roman Catholics in the U.S. Actually, there may be 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 more than that, for, as one bishop...
...like the Dortmund-Munich Rheinpfeil (Rhine Arrow), offer such amenities as a four-course dinner for less than $2.50, worldwide telephone service, and multilingual secretaries at $1.50 an hour. There is even a female Silberputzer (silver cleaner) to keep chrome polished and to dust the aisles. On regular expresses, second-class passengers can count on spotlessly clean cars and hot meals in a diner. Last year 20,000 motorists stowed both themselves and their autos aboard overnight trains, slept their way to their destinations. No wonder the railroad hauls 45% of Germany's intercity passengers...