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...continue as it was before Mr. Nixon ordered the Cambodia invasion. About three per cent of the blacks and eight per cent of the whites approved that course. Much larger groups. 24 per cent black and 46 per cent white, argued for a reduction in the battle tempo and a U. S. pullout as soon as the South Vietnamese could shoulder the full burden...
...attack. Whites originally sat in silence. Styron, more articulate on paper than from the podium, may have hurt his cause in attempting reconciliations where he might have more profitably fought. Drinks flowed on like the Danube. Voices raised. Temperatures climbed. Whites galloped to Styron's defense. Blacks escalated the tempo. Instant polarizations. Insanity. The black man most critical of Styron's permitting Nat Turner to secretly desire a white woman was himself escorting a stunning blonde. As moderator, I equivocated where I meant to be "objective" or "fair"- and soon lost control of the crowd...
...cases and 462 personal injury incidents during the past year. There were also about 300 other miscellaneous episodes of destruction to other facilities or property, Ford said. Ford added that "the tragic bombing at the University of Wisconsin" and other incidents of campus terrorism which "have increased in number, tempo, and seriousness" have contributed to a deep concern in the Justice Department...
PARADE Magazine poses the question of the hour, and if you answered "no one" and "who isn't?", this fall's stepped-up tempo in the great presidential sweepstakes is not likely to send chills down your spine. If you immediately thought of the one man you most admire in the United States, you are apt to be somewhat ignorant of the way Harvard works. For the task of choosing a new president is a giant game-a game which is played with deadly seriousness by many-but nevertheless a game, with an elaborate system of rules (sometimes called...
Three years ago, he toured with the New York Philharmonic as a percussionist-and was severely chastised by Conductor Leonard Bernstein when he set off a rack of sleigh bells out of tempo, ruining the first movement of Mahler's Fourth Symphony. More recently he rode the high trapeze for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and, as a one-line badman in a yet-to-be-released western (Rio Lobo), he was shot and killed by John Wayne, who never could decide whether the tall (6 ft. 4 in.) bit player's name was Plimpleton, Pembleton...