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...Several miles away, on the worn-out coalfield fringe of Birmingham, two young Negro brothers, James and Virgil Ware, were riding a bicycle. Virgil, 13, was sitting on the handle bars. A motor scooter with two 16-year-old white boys aboard approached from the opposite direction. James Ware, 16, told what happened then: "This boy on the front of the bike turns and says something to the boy behind him, and the other reaches in his pocket and he says Pow! Pow! with a gun twice. Virgil fell and I said, get up Virgil, and he said...
...vote, 120 Socialists consume as much as an hour and a half. Cow-walking is combined with sitdown strikes in Diet corridors, deliberate traffic jams, boycotts, and picketing to prevent the Speaker from taking his seat. Through these tactics, the Socialists force all-night sessions, hoping that the worn-out government men will have to give in somewhere along the line...
THROUGHOUT its history, Britain has always managed to find the rare men of courage and invention to carry it through crises of war and peace. Today's happy few are not united by politics, class or a common ideology, but share independence of mind, impatience with worn-out formulas, and a dedicated eagerness to shape the future. Some of the pacemakers...
...partial substitute for profits leaves many a businessman cold. Says Conrad Jamison, vice president of Los Angeles' Security First National Bank: "Sure, you can put depreciation money into securities or pay it out in dividends. But sooner or later, you're going to have to replace that worn-out machinery, and it's almost a certainty you will have to pay more for the replacement than you did for the original. When you treat depreciation as profits you're living off your seed grain." One fact that all sides can agree on is that profit margins...
People begin buying furnishings of all kinds for their houses. "They move back inside the house and start noticing their beat-up lamps and worn-out carpets," says a department store executive in Dallas. "And as people start entertaining more, china and silverware start selling better." The return to school is one of the most potent factors at the turn of the season...