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...mankind," the U.S. perhaps needs to announce its purposes more clearly and then act on them fearlessly. In influencing the minds of men, it is more important to state than to reply, to proclaim the truth than to refute accusations. The U.S. should not be afraid to seem to bend with world opinion if doing so is in its pragmatic interest. But above all, the U.S. should never truckle to adverse opinion, or use it as an excuse to pursue bad policies, or be untrue to itself in order to gain approval...
Descended of New England Puritans, victor of many savage Albany battles involving labor-management relations, Frances Perkins was not about to bend before Washington's political winds. "Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees," was her one concession to critics who howled when Franklin Roosevelt appointed her Secretary of Labor in 1933-the first woman Cabinet member in U.S. history...
...Deanna Hanbey, 28, of South Bend, Ind., wife of a traveling auditor, had grown despondent over her husband's absences and over the task of caring for her four children-two-year-old twin boys, a girl, 6, and a boy, 7. A woman friend found Mrs. Hanbey and the children in the bedrooms: the youngsters had been strangled to death with nylon stockings and a necktie; Mrs. Hanbey had tried to strangle herself, to cut her wrists and ankles, and to set fire to the house. She was hospitalized, whimpering that she had murdered her children and crying...
...that most closely meet the democratic tests are, of course, concentrated in the U.S., the old British Commonwealth and Western Europe. In the nature of things, none is perfect, and some are deeply troubled. None achieved democracy quickly, easily, or as the gift of any master. Nobles had to bend to kings, kings had to die on the block, and a middle class had to rise from turmoil before the stubborn will to freedom finally took concrete shape in constitutions, parliaments and electorates...
...solitary-confinement cells at San Quentin prison. Before he was 21, Sands was serving time on three convictions for armed robbery, with sentences in each of from one year to life, and had won a reputation as a con so "solid" that not even brutal beatings by guards could bend him to prison rules...