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...Supreme Court were unimpeachable, his selection was also politically astute-an act of official beatification that brought cheers from virtually every segment of the civil rights spectrum and should earn the Administration points among disenchanted Negro voters in next year's elections. "This has stirred pride in the breast of every black American," said Floyd McKissick, combative director of the Congress of Racial Equality...
...still unable to comprehend the disaster, the Arab world last week lurched violently between collapse and retribution. It could no longer make war, but refused to make peace. It had lost its armies, but was desperately determined not to lose its face. Instead, it indulged in an orgy of breast-beating, rationalizing, complaining and threatening that seemed intended to prove both that the Arabs had won the war and that someone else was to blame because they had lost it. "Defeat exists only for those who admit it," said Cairo's semiofficial newspaper Al Gumhu...
...school system of Washington, D.C., for instance, first-and second-graders learn about their bodies, third-graders study breast feeding. Not until the fifth and sixth grades does the course take up menstruation and reproduction. In Anaheim, Calif., whose program is considered one of the best in the U.S., instruction begins in the seventh grade, covering parent-child and sibling conflicts, physical changes in adolescence, and masturbation. The eighth grade takes up more physical changes, "problem-solving techniques" and dating. The ninth grade discusses going steady and premarital intercourse. The tenth grade deals with engagement and readiness for marriage. Eleventh...
Deep in the breast of every intellectual burns the desire to play God; to know the symbiosis of mind and body that led to the walking, talking, feeling creature called man; to create a total rationale for his actions and to predict his destiny...
...Claiborne sadly reported that "Le Pavilion does not exist in all its former grandeur." For one thing, he wrote, "the shrimp were tough, and so was the lobster in the bouillabaisse. The maitre d'hótel walked around with a red pencil sticking out of his breast pocket." And, invraisemblablement: "On a recent evening, the rolls were stale...