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...Civil Rights was set up in 1957 to investigate civil rights abuses, not until this month did it get around to hearings in Mississippi. For several years, Robert Kennedy, as Attorney General, argued successfully that the commission should stay out of the state; it would, he said, only stir up more trouble where there was already plenty...
With Annie's ingenious aid, Daddy will soon break out of stir-but the ca per went on without the endorsement of the Hartford, Conn., Courant. Offended by the comic strip's pejorative attitude toward mental institutions and mental health, Courant Publisher John R. Reitemeyer suspended Annie for two weeks-"until she stopped preaching." After all, said Reitemeyer, nothing like that could happen in Connecticut, where "you just can't be railroaded" into a mental institution. Reitemeyer was also concerned about the effect on readers: "It would disturb people with relations in mental institutions, and it might...
...matter of removing them, a highly complicated process involving a series of postures (feet planted firmly on the floor before the mirror, back hunched, one palm cupped below the eye, the other fanned out beside it) that might seem the essence of grace in a Kabuki dancer but stir less enthusiasm when performed in a crowded ladies' room, look downright insane in a restaurant. Worse still are the moments when removal is imperative due to a flying cinder or a sudden slip of a lens, or almost impossible (on a street corner, in a snowstorm); shrewd lensmen wear sunglasses...
...life seems to stir...
...programs nor specific State or Defense Department schemes add up to a Great Society. "Before you can get a society, great or small, you need more than a consensus. You need a nexus: something to tie the parts into a whole, something to cement the individual wills, something to stir the nation's pulse, not continually feel...