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...powerful at all levels of American life-devote their time to stamping out any legitimate efforts by black people to better their lot. And the big club with which they smash all such worthy endeavors is always the same: frantic charges of "reverse racism," "black supremacy," and "black paranoia." Staunch members of our Association will not be bothered a tiny bit by the hypocritical efforts that are being made to present us as "the bad guys." All of us know that if we wanted to be thought "nice" we should know better than to join a principled and determined Association...
Died. The Rev. John LaFarge, 83 staunch Roman Catholic fighter against racial injustice, former editor in chief (1944-48) and longtime guiding light of the Jesuit weekly America, member of a distinguished New England family with a strong sense of social responsibility (Oliver La Farge, who championed the cause of the Indian, was his nephew); in Manhattan. Father La Farge became interested in the problems of the Negro when assigned in 1911 to rural Maryland, from then on waged a relentless campaign for racial equality in books and articles, stumped for a federal FEPC, helped found the 60 Catholic Interracial...
...warmest admirers turned out to be enthusiasts of the radical right wing, who seemed determined to set her up as a martyr and symbol-like General Edwin Walker. The day before the coup, Millionaire Patrick Frawley, president of Eversharp, Inc., and staunch supporter of Dr. Fred Schwarz's Christian Anti-Communist Crusade, gave a private luncheon for her to meet some of the state's leading conservatives. After that, members of the superconservative California Young Republicans offered to pay for her $90-a-day suite at Los Angeles' Beverly Wilshire Hotel. But Robert Gaston, president...
...marriage of science and socialism, in Wilson's vision, will ensure accelerated technological progress that can make Britain "the pilot plant of the world." A socialist government will radically step up the training of more scientists, ensure that they are creatively employed, and staunch the "brain drain" to the U.S. by offering them the prestige and prospects for which many of the country's ablest men now cross the Atlantic. With heavy state support for their work and more "purposive use of research," he prophesied, British scientists will yield new products, new laboratories, new industries, new sources...
...changeover from Adenauer, a staunch Roman Catholic, to Erhard, a Protestant, will upset West Germany's Konfessionsarithmetik, the juggling of top jobs between faiths. Since Protestants will probably hold most major Cabinet posts, Erhard is under pressure to appoint Catholics to several powerful positions. For Minister of Economics, the job in which he himself won national acclaim as Wirtschaftswunderonkel (Uncle Boom), Erhard wants his longtime No. 2 man, able Ludger Westrick, despite demands from the party that the coveted post should go to a politician rather than a civil servant...