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...similarity ends. A fiery orator and prolific writer who thrived on controversy, Fosdick became the focus of the modernist-fundamentalist battles of the 1920s by questioning the Virgin Birth and the literal truth of Scripture, later gained a national following as a radio preacher. Theologically more conservative, McCracken, 63, seldom made the headlines despite his pulpit support for such causes as civil rights and peace in Viet Nam, but has a widespread reputation among the clergy as a preacher's preacher. Other ministers consider him a classic orator in the Scottish tradition who blends content and form...
...news good or bad, Wall Street seldom quivers twice over it. Last week the stock market not only shrugged off the anticipated drop in first-quarter corporate profits but sprinted to a new peak for 1967. Responding to growing indications that the economy will turn up later this year, the Dow-Jones industrial average climbed 13.87 points to close at 897.05. On top of earlier gains, that gave the market a 43.71-point lift in three weeks-for its strongest rally since January. And it left the Dow-Jones only an edge below the 900 level, which many brokers consider...
...anything the reverse is true. He catalyzed thinking in those who had found it convenient not to think. He crystallized subtly felt prejudice into formulations of the causes of Negro poverty and disfranchisement and the character of the white political and economic system. But Carmichael and other SNCC people seldom ventured beyond the simple formulations. What they said was exciting, but did not inspire action...
Americans are reminded almost daily of the Negro's checkered progress toward equality. Seldom, by contrast, are they apprised of the social and economic lag that afflicts the nation's second largest disadvantaged minority: the 4,677,000 Mexican-Americans of the U.S. Southwest-proud, poor and increasingly protest-minded. From the Rio Grande to the Russian River, in the bleak barrios of East Los Angeles and the tar-paper colonias of the San Joaquin Valley, the Mexican minority is struggling to articulate its anger...
...have ever wondered why men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses, McLuhan again comes to the rescue. He knows why girls wear patterned or mesh stockings, why Germans make better nuclear physicists than Americans, why an American is repulsed when a foreigner carries on a conversation only three inches from the American's face, why there is such widespread distaste for the war in Vietnam, why some Arabs wear alarm clocks in their turbans to gain status...