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...convention, Plechner led the successful drive against seating his own state's delegation. The move was a deliberate slap at the senior Party, which had condemned the Rat Finks against Van Sickle's bitter objection, and which had subsequently called for Plechner's resignation as national YR vice-chairman. The pro-Plechner militants condemned the GOP National Committee for interference in YR affairs. They also passed a YR resolution extending "our thanks and appreciation to Richard Plechner for his effort on behalf of the YRNF and to this country." The YR convention proceedings helped increase the group's autonomy...
...recent years, the court had several times passed up the chance to slap down interracial marriage bans. Presented squarely with the issue, however, the court was ringingly clear. "There can be no doubt," wrote Warren, "that restricting the freedom to marry solely because of racial classifications violates the central meaning of the equal protection clause" of the 14th Amendment. No state antimiscegenation law will be able to stand in view of that unqualified, uncompromising finding...
...also took a slap at Cliffies who agitated this Spring for the privilege of living in off-campus apartments. "Judging by a minority on this campus it almost seems as if some want to feel aggrieved and, lacking any serious grievance in our youth-centered society, fling themselves angrily upon the trivial," she said...
...only for his blatant partisanship on Viet Nam, but also for his aphronic action in pulling the entire U.N. peace-keeping force out of the Sinai desert, particularly since Nasser originally asked him to remove it from only half of the 120-mile truce line. In a rare public slap at Thant, Johnson said he was "dismayed at the hurried withdrawal...
What the President's decision means is that the U.S. has accepted the South Vietnamese Army as the most stable and important institution in the country. Taking the responsibility for the pacification program away from American civilians is not a slap at civilian bungling and inability to do the job, but merely a reflection of the decision to keep the Vietnamese military firmly in the saddle...