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...staying out of Watts: He was attempting to have a brief vacation with his family on their small Pennsylvania farm. Farmer, who works 18 hours a day and spends three fourths of the year traveling, seldom gets to see his two daughters, ages 4 and 7. "I'm a stranger to them," he says sadly. Farmer's present wife, Lula, is white. He married her in 1949 while she was a volunteer CORE worker, after his first marriage ended in divorce. Asked whether his mixed marriage presents any problems, Farmer grinned: "Malcolm X used to kid me a little about...
...more often be Ph.D.s and skilled craftsmen than "the wretched refuse" to which the Statue of Liberty still beckons. Those with special talents necessarily rate first preference among a rapidly growing populace. Even so, there are certain to be many who will be "not only the opulent and respectable stranger," as George Washington put it in 1783, "but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions." If the past is a guide, they, too, will add to the nation's strength...
...ever meeting her or even being at the hotel during the trial. Said he: "It is inconceivable that a sane and reasonable mind could believe that this court, during the course of this trial, would meet in a public facility with a self-admitted prostitute who was a total stranger, and make such expressions as she has sworn to. Surely a judge of the United States of America cannot be prevented by such patent perjury from performing his duty in accordance with...
...Kennedy men who suddenly became Johnson retainers in 1963, Larry O'Brien's prospects for advancement hardly seemed the most radiant. While he was a relative stranger in 1961 to the complexities of Capitol Hill-though hardly to politics-O'Brien was largely responsible for passage of the few bills that J.F.K. managed to get through Congress. His success sorely dismayed Vice President Lyndon Johnson, the old maestro of Senate consensus, who had naturally expected to be No. 1 New Frontiersman on Capitol Hill. Yet, to O'Brien's amazement, on the plane back from...
...million less than Lyndon Johnson's "preshrunk" request, but $13 million more than Congress gave last year. Few cries of "giveaway" or "rathole" were heard in the Capitol; instead the bill passed in an atmosphere of doubt, hope, disillusionment and dutiful expectation. Foreign aid still seems a stranger in the house...