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...Shortly afterward began a series of events outstanding in the memory: the race riots of Newark, Detroit, Milwaukee. Sandwiched between these two examples of the breakdown of conventional politics was the first and biggest anti-war demonstration of the summer. In the shadow of Glassboro, it received little national publicity...
...persevered, graduated from Suffield, afterward got a job as a page on Wall Street, where he developed an enthusiasm for finance. At night he studied accounting. At Manhattan's Lybrand Ross Bros. & Montgomery, where he was an accountant for eight years, Geneen became known as a hard-driving young man whose grasp of business, recalls Lybrand Partner Philip Bardes, "went far beyond the balance statement." Geneen next moved through corporate-finance jobs at American Can Co., Bell & Howell and Jones & Laughlin Steel, combing their ledgers, as a colleague of those years later put it, like "a bloodhound...
Though Brown repeatedly urged Negroes to arm themselves, Kirk said afterward that he had not violated a two-week-old state law that imposes a two-year prison sentence for inciting a riot. Debate, said the Governor, "is our way of life. If Mr. Castro, who is only 90 miles away, comes to Florida, I'll debate with him." Asked if he thought Brown also was a Communist, Kirk borrowed one of Walter Reuther's old tag lines: "If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it must be a duck." Nevertheless, the Governor thought...
...city. In 1095, however, inspired by rumors of Islamic persecution of pilgrims, Pope Urban II proclaimed a holy crusade to reconquer Jerusalem for Christ. Four years later, mail-clad knights led by Godfrey of Bouillon took the city by storm and slaughtered every Moslem they could find-afterward repairing for prayer at the shrine of the Holy Sepulcher...
...courage to the sticking-place,/And we'll not fail." Lady Macbeth is a better psychologist than this. She would not let her husband entertain the idea of failure in the first place; and she certainly would not let such an idea sink in by observing a lengthy silence afterward. She must put absolute incredulity into that pair of words and go right on to the next line--the word "but" being used in its meaning of "only...