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...Like Webster's Dictionary, We're Morocco bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Morocco: Sun and Pleasures, Inshallah | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

Tractor Driving. David Webster had the more slowly developing type of seizure from unexplained brain damage, beginning when he was ten months old. He was a trial to his foster parents at Thornhill, outside Toronto. Says Mrs. Willi Smith: "He had to take about nine pills a day and he still had a couple of attacks just about every day. Somebody always had to be with him on the stairs for fear he would slip. They have these attacks if they have the slightest little scare-like slipping on a polished floor. His behavior wasn't all that good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neurosurgery: Half a Brain Is Better | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...Webster's describes "graffiti" as being "a rude inscription or drawing found on walls or stones." However, graffiti for the contest can take any form, be it on a sign, bumper sticker, or toilet paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graffiti Writers Find Benefactor | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...however, was being done on Nixon's behalf. New Jersey was restless under its commitment to the favorite-son candidacy of Senator Clifford Case, and the Nixon forces decided to move in on it. On a golf course over the weekend, Nixon Aide Peter Flanigan told State G.O.P. Chairman Webster Todd: "Look, we need your delegation right now." Todd, whose wife was openly supporting Rockefeller, shot back: "Hell, no!" But pressure continued on individual delegates, who saw no purpose in holding out for a lost cause. By Tuesday night it was open knowledge that New Jersey would break, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NOW THE REPUBLIC | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...front of their own homes by clubs from the White hands of National Guardsmen, because they're dissatisfied with the way the so called "justice" of Whites seems to be so one sided. Can it be that White America got confused when they coined the term "justice"? Noah Webster in his white dictionary defines justice as "the quality of being correct or right, honest, impartial and fair in representation of facts." Plato defined justice as "every part doing its own work and not interfering with others." Aristotle taught that justice included both the legal and the fair...

Author: By Harold Vann, | Title: A Black Man's Lament | 7/30/1968 | See Source »

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