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...night-all this was Birmingham, Ala. Birmingham's Negroes had always seemed a docile lot. Downtown at night, they slouched in gloomy huddles beneath street lamps, talking softly or not at all. They knew their place: they were "niggers"' in a Jim Crow town, and they bore their degradation in silence. But last week they smashed that image forever. The scenes in Birmingham were unforgettable. There was the Negro youth, sprawled on his back and spinning across the pavement, while firemen battered him with streams of water so powerful that they could strip bark off trees. There...
Much of this will bore many people; but, of greater importance, it will not embarrass fishermen. That is why ABC's Wide World of Sports is two years old and headed into long life: it has always taken any sporting moment as seriously as the participants themselves...
...defend Antonioni is impossible: his foes call him a bore, and all the talk in the world can't convince them they haven't been bored. On the other hand, those of us who enjoy his work ought to be able to explain why. Unfortunately, most favorable critics slaver with adjectives, like the Brattle brochure, which tells us that Le Amiche has "great visual elegance", that it is "social criticism of a Marxist order ... constructed from a mosaic of incidents trivial and tragic ... I'univers antonionien--arid, alienated, isolated...
...which makes the machines that other industries use to produce $174 billion worth of the nation's durable goods, is in the midst of the greatest upsurge in new orders in seven years. Machine tools range from simple drilling and stamping presses to wondrously complicated automated machines that bore an auto engine block in one continuous process. Since they sometimes take as long as two years to build, new orders are a key indicator of how businessmen feel about the future. For the first quarter of 1963, U.S. machine toolmakers received $206,700,000 in new orders...
...results of this experiment were unambiguous: the boy decided that his talent was less than his standards demanded and that his standards demanded and that his desire to paint was far from insatiable. Once having rejected a career as an artist, William seldom looked back. His subsequent work always bore the mark of acute sensory perception and aesthetic imagination, but his artistic flair was sub-ordinated to his moral and metaphysical concerns...