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...Leaning Backward. Demonstrations, riots and violence have been the order of the day ever since. But "for a long time we didn't even mention the situation," says Record Editor Harvey Lopez. This posture proved unworkable, especially after one of the arrested picketers turned out to be Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, mother of the Governor of Massachusetts (TIME, April 10). The news flashed out of St. Augustine on all the national wires, and reluctantly the Record played the story on Page One-but beneath a studiously uninformative headline: MORE ARRESTS...
...dilemma. As a newspaper, it has begun at last to give St. Augustine's civil rights movement the news prominence it deserves. Record accounts of local violence now appear where they belong: on the front page. But as a newspaper with segregationist sympathies, the Record bends over backward to accommodate what it considers the right side...
...ironic and sad that Lyndon Johnson, friend of the Negroes, will be defeated in November by an uneducated white populace outraged over the continuing violent demands of crusading Negroes. The ill timing of the leap forward in the civil rights field will unfortunately result in leaps backward in many fields with the inauguration of President Goldwater...
...game called "cool and hot," the system has great possibilities for a chatty weekend at Big Sur or Martha's Vineyard. Clocks (hot), money (hot), clothes (getting cooler in the U.S.), nudity (very cool), and almost anything else can be interpreted as media by McLuhan's rules. "Backward countries are cool, and we are hot." Autos are hot. The "blurry, shaggy texture of Kennedy" was a natural for cool TV, which is why "sharp, intense" Nixon lost the debates. Private enterprise is hot; public debt is cool, Iago is cool, but Othello hot. Girls who wear glasses...
...Niigata's luck changed. Said one survivor: "The ground rose up as though a giant had awakened underground and was trying to get out into the sunlight." The shock of the earthquake tumbled a brand-new bridge into the Shinano River. For a few moments the river ran backward, broke through embankments and flooded half the city. A four-story apartment house slowly fell over on its back, carrying with it a terrified housewife who had been hanging laundry on the roof. When the rolling stopped, she stepped to the ground, unhurt, as were the other residents...