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...White House Aide] Ken O'Donnell who, at about 1:20 p.m., told us that the President had died," said Johnson. "I think his precise words were, 'He's gone.' I found it hard to believe that this had happened. The whole thing seemed unreal-unbelievable. A few hours earlier, I had breakfast with John Kennedy; he was alive, strong, vigorous. I could not believe now that he was dead. I was shocked and sickened...
...ideals of the Jamestown colony have grown unreal and stale like the values of Plymouth. The men who backed the Jamestown venture were no other-wordly visionaries, but practical men of business. The Virginia Company hankered after precious metals, a Northwest Passage, and raw materials with which to produce "all the commodities of Europe, Africa and Asia, and to supplye the wantes of all our decayed trades." Bradford's "spirite of God and his grace" were conceits foreign to the minds of these entrepreneurs. In return for their investment they wanted earthly dividends of the sort envisioned by Michael Drayton...
Detroit's unexpected labor turmoil this year has had an unreal, occasionally downright unbelievable quality right from the start - but last week it turned into a full-fledged nightmare for the U.S. economy. As the United Auto Workers' strike against Ford entered its second senseless week, it seemed certain that some, and perhaps much, of the damage to the economy will be lasting...
...already free, man. All you have to do is act like it. I'm here to listen to these fools lie about how they're going to help Negroes." Then, somehow, the quiet marble halls, polished floors, the measured speech now being given by a liberal Northern Republican seemed unreal. More real were the memory of demonstrations, picket lines, sweat, nausea too often denied, six dead Negro children, Birmingham, freedom songs; despair when quiet and sophisticated friends were caught up in the storm of revolt and swept into the movement on waves of emotion and hate; the endless search...
...government efforts to further segregate higher education, set up tutorial projects at the abysmal "tribal" (native African) universities, and "kept Western ideas alive" among university students. But the detainment law and other repressive measures are "politicizing" NUSAS, Du Plessis said. "To draw a distinction between education and apartheid is unreal." And thus the uneasy peace between NUSAS and the government grows ever more tenuous...