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Millions of Americans know these names and remember these scenes. Yet few know the name of the man central to them all, Frank Minis Johnson, the U.S. district judge for Alabama's 23 southeastern counties. At 48, Johnson has established an impressive record of calm and considered judgment that has stamped him as one of the most important men in America. In 11½ years of inter- preting and enforcing the U.S. Constitution, he has wrought social and political changes that affect all of Alabama, all of the South, all of the nation...
...principle--which is nice psychologically for the Japanese--but things remain only on a simple level. We have no strong economic and cultural ties as the French retain in that area. Nor were we participants of the Geneva Convention that constructed the peace set-up in 1954 for Southeastern Asia. We have a relationship with Communist China, but it is not so close as to permit us to exert any influence upon them. We have a good relationship with the Soviet Union, but not as close as our American one. Though Japan is frequently cited as a major power...
...perches like a nervous hummingbird on the long southeastern rim of Communist China - 61 sq. mi. of uneasy Portuguese suzerainty in a teeming, tumultuous Asian world. This is fabled Macao, a sleepy city of sin, smuggling and games of chance, which, like nearby Hong Kong, is tolerated by Peking mainly as a handy source of hard currency. Thus its 300,000 people live in the knowledge that they might at any time be engulfed by their giant neighbor. "When China breathes," goes one old Macao saying, "we tremble." Last week China breathed, and the tremble was almost seismic...
...American's image of himself," says Professor Will Herberg of Drew University, "is still the Mayflower, John Smith, Davy Crockett, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln . . . and this is true whether the American in question is a descendant of the Pilgrims or the grandson of an immigrant from southeastern Europe." In politics, write Harvard Professors Edward Banfield and James Wilson, "the perfect candidate, then, is of Jewish, Polish, Italian or Irish extraction and has the speech, dress, manner and the public virtues-honesty, impartiality, and devotion to the public interest-of the upper-class Anglo-Saxon...
Looking ahead to next Saturday's important match with C.C.N.Y., Marion plans to gradually work his first team into competition. "I thought my sophomores could get some experience against Holy Cross" he said. "I'll use a mixture of my first and second team against Southeastern Mass. Tech. [this] Saturday and send my full first team to M.I.T. next Wednesday...