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...cool and dapper man whose accent combines his Asian birth and his English education at Cambridge, arived here from Canada and lunched at Eliot House, where he will live while here. He expressed no qualms at his prolonged absence from Singapore because "it's fairly tranquil there right...
State and local politics reflect the impact no less than national politics. New Hampshire is tranquil, but talk about law and order is rampant. Democratic Governor John King, now running for the Senate, discerns a fine grey line between treason and dissent: "We have reached the point where we had better draw that line and say, 'You shall not pass.' " John Sears, Republican sheriff of Suffolk County (Boston) has been appointing Negro deputies, attempting to work with ghetto groups, and telling his men that they need not carry weapons at all times. His innovations have loosed a cascade...
...audiences nearly everywhere are as big as or even bigger than Richard Nixon's or Hubert Humphrey's, and usually twice as enthusiastic. Often they are downright fanatical. Even in such relatively tranquil and liberal states as Connecticut, Kansas and Washington, Wallace support is abundantly in evidence. "We have no racial issues," says Washington's Republican Representative Catherine May. "Who are these people in a liberal state who will spend a buck for a Wallace sticker...
...right's march drown out the very voices that might contribute most to a conciliation of the nation's conflicts. The problems confronting America today all demand hard thinking and constructive debate. They will not be solved by the nightstick or by nostalgia for more tranquil times. Moreover, a determinedly retrogressive body politic could inflame forever the sores that merely irritate it today...
...holocausts that gutted Watts, Newark or Detroit in previous years. The U.S. had 286 racial disturbances from May through the end of August, but most were relatively small and short. Though practically any city could still blow, the summer of 1968 now ranks as the most tranquil since...