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...county," he says, "but I'm trying to keep my losses to a minimum. I'm trying to let the laboring man know that there is nothing inconsistent with my being a Republican and being interested in the welfare of the individual worker." Even while trying to stave off losses in Genesee, Chamberlain cannot afford to neglect Ingham and Livingston, and already he has heard complaints that he has not been seeing enough of his farm friends. To handle that problem, he scheduled a tour through the district's farming areas this week with Ezra Benson, whom...
...second straight year in North Carolina, a handful of handpicked (for top grades, social graces) Negro schoolchildren went to classes with whites-two in Charlotte, four in Winston-Salem. five in Greensboro-in Governor Luther Hartwell Hodges' plan to permit a little integration in order to stave off a lot. Last week, unlike last year, there was little violence. In Winston-Salem a couple of Ku Klux crosses were burned on a high school lawn, 200 out of 600 white students were transferred out of an integrated elementary school at parents' requests. One measure of North Carolina...
...delivered to the U.S. Congress a memorable plea that turned out years later to have been a fateful warning. She was Shanghai-born, Wellesley-educated (class of '17) Mme. Chiang Kaishek, First Lady of Free China. Her plea-lackadaisically met-was for more U.S. help for China to stave off disaster. One day last week Mme. Chiang, back in the U.S. from Formosa for medical checkups, went to Ann Arbor to accept an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of Michigan, there delivered another timely warning that had fateful undertones. Its net: because of too much intellectual handwringing...
...Spearhead & the Stave. Against this thesis of an officers' conspiracy, pale, intense Gaullist Minister André Malraux pitted an eloquence doomed to be soon silenced. (At week's end, Malraux, although retained in the Cabinet, was relieved of his post as spokesman for the De Gaulle government.) Malraux is the author of some of the most influential French novels of this century (Man's Fate, Man's Hope), an erudite art historian (The Voices of Silence, The Metamorphosis of the Gods), and an old revolutionist who served in the Chinese Civil...
...know the famous metaphor: 'The fellaghas are the iron head of the lance.' Very well. But what if the lance no longer has a stave? What does one do with the spearhead when it is not any longer on the stave...