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...Vacationland. Bonn's staunch support of Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967 helped transform public attitudes and stimulate the sale of German consumer goods. "We are a pragmatic people," explains a senior Israeli trade official. "We cannot spit in their faces forever." The breakthrough can be traced to several years before the Middle East war, when it was revealed that Germany had been secretly supplying Israel with millions of dollars worth of arms. With much embarrassment, Bonn stopped these shipments rather than face political reprisals by Arab nations, particularly their implied threats to recognize East Germany...
...publicizes the shocking more often than quiet accomplishment. "Some leaders," says Young, "are followed by seven Negroes and 70 screaming reporters." On the other hand, if many blacks remain personally conservative, they also welcome flamboyant gestures. "Adam Clayton Powell is the vicar for the man who always wants to spit in Mr. Charlie's face," says John Morsell, assistant executive director of the N.A.A.C.P. "They love him for that, but they don't expect him to do anything solid...
...boys spit on the pavement, dig each other in the ribs; some whistle shrilly, others swear obscenely and several tune into dance bands on their transistors. They hug their girls on the processional path and pull them from each other's arms and look them over cockily. At any moment you expect them to draw knives: first against each other, then against the believers. For the way these youngsters look upon believers is not as juniors upon their elders, not as guests upon their hosts, but as lords of the manor upon houseflies. Still, it doesn't come...
...mere machine politician putting in time on the bench while he waits to retire. He has been a courageous judge. In one highly unpopular decision, he dismissed an indictment against a Memphis theater manager who had been charged with possessing and planning to screen a French film entitled I Spit on Your Grave, which showed nude love-making by interracial couples. Battle found the state's obscenity law unconstitutional because it failed to meet requirements spelled out by the U.S. Supreme Court. "They told me I'd be opening a Pandora's box for children," says Battle...
...maybe three suckling pigs," says Sione, "and go down to Cape Cod, where a friend of the team's has a cottage. Then we prepare them on a spit, and while they're roasting, which takes several hours, everyone gets quite drunk...