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...reputation as a civil rights statesman, won favorable mention as a Southern moderate who might do nicely as a Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1960. But Collins' practice falls far short of his preachment: not once during his three years as Governor has he proposed even a token program for admitting Negro children to white classrooms in Florida's 100%-segregated public school system...
...billion cruzeiros in both April and May, 1.8 billion in June). Lucas Lopes trimmed nearly $75 million from the current budget and even managed to take a symbolic batch of 7,204,800 cruzeiros out of circulation. He revamped the ruinous coffee-price-support program by making only token payments for low-grade coffee. Despite complaints from the growers, he sold 260,000 bags of four-year-old surplus coffee at about 7? to 10? less than the pegged price-and thus earned Brazil an unexpected $15 billion...
...them is emerging as a possible head man to succeed him. That a successor may soon be needed was clear last week. Carl Gustav Jung, now 83, secluded himself from all but small groups of his followers, who made pilgrimages to his retreat at Kusnacht. Jung made only token appearances at the congress' opening and closing sessions...
Harold has a can of beer and a package of gum remaining; or a one-way subway token to Scalloy Square (he can come back tomorrow); or English muffiins and a cup of tea. Or a package of cigarettes. But it is night, the time of neon and lengthy shadows, streetlamps, hushed voices, nervous laughter, and sex. Night is Harold's garment of life...
...before his assembled people in full regalia, and as he sits upon his stool, it is yanked out from under him. As he lies sprawled on the ground, a tribesman tears off one of the chief's sandals and slaps him smartly in the face with it-as token of his disgrace for life...