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...their glasses melted and their anger turned on each other. To make matters worse, the buses that shuttled the revellers through the rain and fog to the annual Tuesday Essex outing had to stop every fifteen minutes, because a catered dinner the night before had left its toll...
...inequities of generations do not vanish overnight. The continuing complaints about the competence of black teachers constitute white Georgians' first experience with the awful toll of separate and unequal. Says Dr. Benjamin Mays, retired president of Morehouse College and chairman of the Atlanta school board: "If a black teacher is not good enough to teach a white kid, then he shouldn't be teaching black kids either. Black teachers were never said to be incompetent until they were sent to teach white children. We are in chaos and we are going to be in it for some time." Despite...
Kissinger's ascendance took an additional toll on the functioning of the Cabinet departments and stifled any useful ideas which might otherwise have originated in them. Neither Rogers nor Secretary Laird has been as forceful and persuasive an advocate as Kissinger, and, as a result, their immediate assistants-the men who feed position papers to Kissinger and his staff-have been less likely to take risks and back their department heads up. The result has been a near monotony of viewpoint; the crucial policy recommendations have come almost uniformly from Kissinger's office...
...young cadets-247 in all-marched 80 miles in four days through rain and mud before the battle at New Market. They plunged into battle and acquitted themselves admirably. The North was defeated, but V.M.I, paid its toll: ten were killed and 47 wounded. Their youthful heroism even spawned a poem by one Irving Bacheller...
...print some of the thousands of telegrams of support sent the president by Mexican leaders. In conjunction with administration flag-waving, there have been stepped up military operations across the country. Along the well-travelled Cuernavaca-Mexico City Highway soldiers march with fixed bayonets. Armed searches at the toll stations have been frequent. Full dress military patrols roam the countryside in the state of Guerrero, famous as the home of Acapulco, while it remains under semi-martial...