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Most people are fascinated by outward success???their social position, financial gain, power, or, in a word, their image in the eyes of others. If their outward image is, for any reason, shaken, they are inevitably shaken and may even collapse. They lack fortitude because they are neither true to themselves nor honest with others. To them the end always justifies the means. However, I have been brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others...
...certainly did not mean that he had had help in killing King. Even so, the escape and the questionable circumstances surrounding it will focus more attention on the feeble efforts of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which has been probing?with a notable lack of style, skill and success???the killings of King and John F. Kennedy. Staff investigators have interviewed Ray six times, and Chairman Louis Stokes of Ohio intended to call him to testify in public. Though Stokes will not reveal what Ray has told the committee, he insists that "We know there are people out there...
...Radcliffe College, concluded that as a result of their childhood training and various social pressures of home and family, many women are hobbled by a fear of success???a learned fear that the risks of succeeding are "loss of femininity," loss of womanly identity. The "fear" is also quite practical?in the face of expected discrimination, a woman may decide that the effort to succeed is not worth...
Berkeley's conservative Mayor Wallace Johnson thinks that any vote on the program today would carry by at least a two-thirds majority. Yet no one considers the project a complete success???at least not yet. Racial tension still runs high at the two junior highs and in the high school. At Martin Luther King Junior High, students break down into four groups: the blacks, the straight whites, the hippie whites and Mexican-American Chicanes. The lines are rarely crossed. The noon-hour dance is dominated by blacks; the groups eat separately. There have been interracial fights and class disorders...
...slate pencil. In Ménière's Disease only the balancing mechanism of the ear is impaired and all that is essential is to cut only the fibres which conduct balancing sensations. Brain surgeons, like exalted telephone repairmen selecting particular lines in a many-stranded cable, tried with little success???to pick out the balancing fibres of the acoustic nerve...