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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Albany railroad, Creighton Abrams grew up learning to drill tin cans with a rifle, raising baby beef as a 4-H farm boy, and driving around in his Model T. In high school he was both an outstanding student and captain of a championship football team that went unscored upon in his last season...
...Marshall, philosophize with Roy Wilkins, reminisce with James Farmer, but King remained an impenetrable figure. His faintly Oriental face was a calm mask for the tensions that surged unceasingly within him. Yet he was the bravest man I ever knew in public life. During the terrible days that followed upon the school desegregation ruling, no white Southerner ever matched a fraction of his courage. To watch one of his marches was to sense the awesome power of strong character combined with high purpose. This is the way it must have been, one reflected, when the early Christians braved the hate...
...Ascoli, 69, the final blow was the abuse heaped upon him because of his support of the U.S. position in Asia and Viet Nam. In a recent issue, he lamented the loss of onetime friends and the "feeling of loneliness" it gave him. Though subscribers stayed steady at 210,000, their identity changed; Ascoli feels that he was losing liberal and academic readers and that the loss was causing publishing houses to reduce their advertising. Ad pages, which stood at a moderately money-losing 543 in 1963, dropped to a painfully money-losing 401 last year...
...Nordhoff announced that he would retire at the end of 1968, and in a typically efficient manner said he intended during his last months at VW "to put my house in order." He thereupon groomed Kurt Lotz, former chairman of a Mannheim electrotechnical firm, as his successor. Last week, upon Nordhoff's death, Lotz immediately took over the Volkswagenwerk...
...Union has called for "no draft for an unjust war," it has not put together a program of its own for an end to the draft altogether, for a different system of deferments, a volunteer army, etc. There were reasons for this-the Union probably never could have agreed upon a program. It feared, for example, that by calling for an end to the draft altogether it might alienate large segments of its potentially broad-based support. But this, in turn, has made the rallying point an essentially negative one and the basis for the Union's political stand-opposition...