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...With this kind of awareness of the truth, you can change me from being one of your sternest Negro critics to an enthusiastic reader. Having been given a chance, many Negroes have already proved by their achievements that their intelligence can be matched with that of any other group. But these were the minority who had the strength to persist against great odds. When the majority of Negroes have the chance and feel that their environment is not so overwhelmingly hostile, they will prove it too. Perhaps, in the end, 1967 will be known as the year of developing understanding...
...above the cozy back-room deals that had determined the city's fate under postwar Democratic administrations. He also proved that he could be tough when the situation demanded, took to radio and TV in the strike's last week to give one of the sternest speeches that New York had heard in a long time. "The government of this city," he said, "will not allow the power brokers in our city, or any special interest, to dictate the terms under which it will exist in New York. The paramount issue confronting us today is whether New York...
...Sternest Test. There have already been encouraging results. When the U.S.-aid agreement with Egypt expired in June, the Johnson Administration pointedly let it lapse until such time as Cairo cleared up some "unresolved policy differences" between the two nations. Within weeks, the U.A.R. agreed to a cease-fire in its nasty little war in Yemen, moved to settle private U.S. claims against its government (including $500,000 for a USIS library that was wrecked by a mob), and began a series of U.S.-suggested domestic economic programs. In response, President Johnson has authorized negotiations that will send some...
Last week, as Washington prepared for U.S. visits from Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan (on Dec. 14) and India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri (in early 1966), the Administration was ready to put the tough new foreign-aid line to its sternest test...
...time, Truffaut was the sternest critic on Cahíers du Cinéma, the trumpet and bible of the New Wave, and he introduced Moreau to the company of serious filmmakers and intellectuals that has been her real world ever since. "I found myself among people I understood better," she recalls, "people I wanted to know, people I admired. The cinema began to mean something to me beyond simply being an actress." Moreau went back to work with a passion, and in two years she made four films, among them three of her best: Les Liaísons Dangereuses...