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Meanwhile, the long negotiations on the issues that divide Britain and Rhodesia are proceeding at a snail's pace. Wilson wants guarantees that the nation's 4,000,000 blacks will eventually gain majority rule when their "achievement warrants it." Smith, who has said that "one man, one vote will not come within my life," wants the whites to have power to decide when the time is ripe. He also objects to Wilson's demand that he return legal power to the British governor to implement any agreement reached-with London. At week's end, Smith...
...that the Negro has made great gains in a relatively short time, and that he now would do better to stop agitating and consolidate what he has won. At the same time, much of the new black militancy is a result of frustration over what many Negroes consider their snail's pace of progress. Beneath the passion and the rhetoric, these two opposing views pose a root question about the state of the Negro in the U.S. today: just what advances have-and have not-been made by the nation's 21 million Negroes...
Others felt that things had moved beyond that and reflected a growing impatience with the snail's pace of Onganía's government, which has yet to make a start on the economic and political problems that triggered the revolution...
...Commissioner Thomas Hoving dragooned City Greeter Sharman Douglas and former Miss America Bess Myerson into rowing them around the lake ("Stroke, stroke, stroke!" cried Lindsay), engaged in an oar-slapping water fight with pursuing newsmen (who seriously considered sinking the mayor's "Ship of State"), captured a tiny snail ("Escargot," they announced), cooked an omelet, and toured the environs atop a "cherry picker" used to replace street lights. Funny...
...sixth biggest company. People grab up the giveaways, not only because each box top can be redeemed for ten more samples at the local Unilever-owned store, but also because the Omo man is plugged by radio ads that suggest he possesses supernatural powers. Say the commercials: "As a snail dies the day it tastes salt, dirt disappears the day it challenges...