Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true, of course, that would be pretty important to Kennedy around 1971 or '72. But it may not be true. There is reason to wonder whether the whole thing will succeed--or even get off the ground. What if residents don't like the idea of putting aside what little money they have for rehabilitation projects and the like? As one Kennedy aide puts it, "This won't work if the community doesn't come through." He thinks it will...
...Savior. The wonder is that there is anyone left in Haiti to set off bombs. In his years as President, Duvalier has stamped out virtually all opposition, executing 2,000 political enemies and driving the rest into exile or terrified silence. The Tonton Macoute is so ubiquitous that Haitians are afraid to talk to anyone they have not known for several years. The illiterate and docile peasants, who make up 90% of the Haitian population, believe what the government tells them-and it tells them ceaselessly that Papa Doc is their savior, to be revered on a par with Jesus...
Editorials, continued an unflagging King, are even worse. "Could a real living journalist have assembled in his human mind such a collection of dim platitudes which lead so inexorably to a non-conclusion?" As for columnists, "I wonder if they would be so lavishly used if they were not dirt cheap; if it was not possible for an editor or a publisher to obtain for a song so much copy of such high respectability?" Many columnists "conceal an idea the size of a pea in a stack of dry straw. Does nobody discipline them? Does nobody make them rewrite...
...Harvard exercised its interest in the power company, said SNCC and the students, the University could speed the drive to state-wide integration. "Mississippi is a profitable business enterprise," they challenged; "we wonder whether education is only incidental to the Board of Trustees. "In effect the issue was whether a corporation could separate itself from its product--in the University's case a liberally-educated...
...Locker Room. Hoping to profit from Licensing's touch, National Periodical Publications, Inc. (Mad magazine. Wonder Woman comics) bought the firm last year for $2,400,000 in stock. Royalties from manufacturers, who pay Licensing 5% of the wholesale price of goods sold with its endorsements, last year totaled some $5,000,000. Half of that goes to the owners of the names; the rest is nearly all profit...