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...horror of Dr. King's untimely death. Whether I burn or kill (by God's grace, I hope to do neither), I am associated with those who do. And we dare to point indiscriminate accusing fingers at whites. The answer to whether Dr. King labored in vain will not be determined alone by the success or failure of civil rights legislation or by improvement of housing and economic opportunities for minorities, but also by the degree to which all of us, blacks and whites, are committed to the pursuit and practice of nonviolence and love. Any commitment short...
...they think they are fooling? In their hearts, Dr. King died a long time ago. They had abandoned him; they had not really cared, obviously, whether he lived or died; he was a thorn in their side. Their actions are not only making sure that Dr. King died in vain, they are going to make sure that his whole life was in vain...
...Kaline lined to Carl Yastrzemski who, naturally, caught the ball and threw crisply to third base in a vain attempt to double off McAuliffe. It was a good throw, but Dalton Jones couldn't find the handle, and the ball skittered away, letting McAuliffe score. Before the horrible inning was over, Willie Horton got a wind-blown double to center, Freehan another scratch single both off the hapless Culp--and Oyler a run-scoring single off reliever Lee Stange...
...eighth inning of yesterday's humiliation at Fenway Park, Tiger shortstop Ray Oyler struck in vain at a Sparky Lyle slant. It was his third such failure, so Sox catcher Elston Howard whipped the ball in the general direction of Dalton Jones and third base, as custom dictates. Unfortunately, Jones was busy in the short-stop hole, retrieving the bat which had flown from the fanning Oyler's hands. Howard's throw flew unchallenged into Carl Yastrzemski's pasture where it died on the soggy grass. Yaz started in, stopped, wagged his head both in shame and disgust, and elected...
...their deliberations came the Washington-based International Monetary Fund and its sister agency, the World Bank (now headed by Rob ert Strange McNamara), which makes loans to underdeveloped countries. Bretton Woods' key decision was to stick with gold as the primary international monetary asset. In vain, Britain's John Maynard Keynes argued for creation of a new international money to sup plant gold. He warned that reliance on "the barbarous metal" would ultimately lead to a drying up of reserves and re strictions on trade and capital flow. The U.S. (then holding some 57% of the world...