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...becoming more urban and sophisticated. And Brewer has this kind of voter. Crowds come to his rallies mostly in cars, not pickup trucks. His audiences are younger and better-dressed than Wallace's, and many of them resent Wallace's use of the Alabama statehouse apparatus for his national grandstanding...
...because his indictment turned the New Haven trial from an almost routine prosecution of a small Party Chapter-one of many such prosecutions in the nationwide crackdown on the Panthers which has been underway since Richard Nixon and Co. took over the operation of the nation's law-enforcement apparatus-into what may be one of the most important political trials in this century, a trial which black and white radicals alike contend forms an all-important, make-or-break cross-roads for the Movement, a trial which John Froines called "the focus of the whole country...
Exploding Tank. Yet the previous voyages had seemed so effortless, the voyagers so confident, the supporting apparatus of men and equipment so efficient, the goals so bold and growing ever bolder, that a degree of hubris had developed. It was not so much frail human flesh against the vast challenge of space as it was technicians remembering the sequence of switches to throw. The world could be forgiven a touch of ennui...
...Colonels have consolidated their power by using the most modern and sophisticated military apparatus (brought to Greece by NATO and the Americans) to run an efficient police state. The U. S. tried to hide its full military and political backing of the Greek regime by announcing after the coup that it would cut down military aid to Greece and bar "major items" from its military aid program. "Major items" has never been defined, and it was discovered five days ago that the Pentagon is secretly supplying $20 million in surplus military stock above and beyond the $25 million in military...
There is a possibility that the collective leadership is still intact and that the propaganda apparatus was reorganized because of failures on the part of specific officials rather than as part of a titanic power struggle. In spite of disagreements about who is doing what to whom, however, most specialists in the West agreed that something certainly seemed to be brewing in the Kremlin. They also agreed that a Kremlin shake-up would not mean a drastic change in the present rigid and repressive Soviet policies at home and in Eastern Europe, but simply a more vigorous application of those...