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George Sammarpia, Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senator in Massachusetts will speak at 6 p.m. tonight in the Harvard Freshman Union. Sammaripa is running in the Democratic primary, hoping to unrest Republican Edward Brooke...
...passionate effort to get that message across to an America beset with more suffering and social unrest than at any time since the Great Depression, Coles has in the past dozen years poured his insights into 13 books and 350 articles. His most recent books, just published, are Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers and The South Goes North (Atlantic-Little, Brown), the first about poverty in rural backwaters, the second about destitution in urban slums. They are part of a multi-volume work called Children of Crisis, a long-term study that began in 1967 with a book about the effects...
Last Straw. But there was more to the coup than that. In his drive for progress, Busia had left a trail of resentment and unrest. He sacked 600 civil servants (mostly for political reasons), threatened to fire judges who were uncooperative, imposed a special "development" tax of 1% to 5% on incomes of more than $ 1,000 a year, and banned the import of 150 items ranging from cigarettes to new automobiles. Last month, in what proved to be the last straw, Busia devalued Ghana's currency by a whopping...
...Democratic side, economic unrest has replaced fear of crime as the major issue among blue-collar voters; many of those who voted for Wallace before should return to the Democratic fold. He has also lost support from the Democratic machines of the South. Lester Maddox and John Bell Williams have been replaced by more moderate leaders anxious to break the region out of its isolation (TIME, May 31). Yet the drawbacks neither dampen Wallace's enthusiasm for another campaign nor undermine his basic goal. He does not really expect to become President-just to keep forcing Southern strategies...
...ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other," wrote Carl Jung, whose theories of the collective unconscious have most profoundly influenced Campbell's thinking. "Heaven has become empty space to us, a fair memory of things that once were. But our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the roots of our being." In search of something that they can hold on to, many people in the West, particularly the young, are either returning to Christian fundamentalism through the Jesus Revolution (TIME, June 21) or turning to the religions of the East, chiefly Buddhism and Hinduism...