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...waited up after listening to President Kennedy give a speech on civil rights, heard Medgar's Oldsmobile pull into the driveway. Then a rifle fired from a honeysuckle thicket some 200 ft. away. Myrlie ran to the door and saw her 37-year-old husband, bloody and dying, slump toward the steps, his car keys still in hand. His arms had been laden with T shirts reading jim crow must go. The children ran out, crying "Daddy, Daddy, please get up, Daddy!" When he died, Mrs. Evers noted in her testimony, Medgar Evers was working for the simplest things...
...strange place for a war. Bodies slump insensibly in overstuffed chairs. A peach rots silently in a wastebasket--forbidden fruit, barely tasted...
Exceptional in creating opportunities, Harvard's one occasional offensive weakness has been finishing them; the scoring slump around the first of December makes it clear that putting shots on net doesn't automatically lead to goals. But a 5.25 goals-per-game average is among the best in the country, and Tomassoni has to marvel in his forwards' talent...
That's because the recovery remains in the throes of two distinct economic cycles, the TIME panel agreed. On the one hand, the U.S. has clearly rebounded from the 1990 slump as low interest rates and the release of pent-up consumer demand have set off a run on such big-ticket items as houses and cars. On the other hand, the payroll slashing that dates back to the 1980s remains in full force as U.S. corporations strive to compete in world markets. Even the boom in business investment, which has boosted economic growth, has gone largely for computers...
...true -- the long, l-o-n-g slump is ending...