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...Black Brush." The Louisville Courier-Journal warned: "The nation may prepare itself for one of the ugliest campaigns in our history. The strategy of the Goldwater high command . . . must be to inflame every minority grievance, to stir up the dregs of our national spirit, to make respectable the emotions and prejudices of which we are secretly ashamed. This will be a campaign to sicken decent and thoughtful people, and the bitterness it will distill will linger long in our national life." The Chicago Daily News found that "for the zealots," Goldwater "has the invaluable ability to give a latent, fear...
...into the Dominican Republic. The few who returned to fight Duvalier invariably met defeat-and often a grisly death-at the hands of the dictator's henchmen. Last week, a month after Duvalier proclaimed himself "President for life," another small exile band was back in Haiti, attempting to stir up a guerrilla...
IRAC & Preachers. Unlike law schools, which minimize memorizing in order to stir thought, cram schools are devoted to organizing the student's knowledge with forced-draft methods. Chicago's ebullient crammer, Thomas J. Harty, spends seven hours a day firing off questions, listening to the class consensus, then firing back the correct answers. The method works so well that one year 92% of his students passed the Illinois bar exam. Denver's Gerald Kopel, a former newsman-turned-lawyer, crams his students by simulating actual exams and blasting bad spellers for such barbarisms as adultary, devorse, drunkedness...
...underground refuge. She protected anti-Castro rebels fleeing the police, slipped out bits of intelligence information, and is credited with helping at least 200 people to escape the island. Fidel obviously knew much of what was going on. Yet to arrest the Maximum Leader's own sister would stir a major scandal. His agents kept her under surveillance, but she came and went as she pleased. Last August, after the mother died, there was a violent episode when Fidel decided to expropriate the family land once and for all. Juanita started selling the cattle; Fidel flew into a rage...
...biggest stir by far has been caused by 19-year old rookie outfielder Tony Conigliaro, who is already eliciting comparisons with Boston's immortal Ted Williams. With only half a season of Class D ball under his belt, Tony C. is batting .282, with 13 home runs, and he's getting better and better...