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...remember travelling in the South not long after the four little girls in burnt lace were removed from the rubble in Birmingham. One Saturday night, in Charlotte, N.C., I went with my father to visit a dynamic preacher-dentist, Rev. Dr. Reginald Hawkins, who was leading the school integration fight in Charlotte-Machlenburg that would eventually result in the Supreme Court's important Swann decision. I remember sitting that night in the Hawkins' well-furnished living-room, watching Johnny Carson on their color T.V., while my father and Rev. Hawkins talked on into the morning about the black struggle...
...sorcerer's survival. That depends on his "impeccable will"; and Castaneda's third and finest book, Journey to Ixtlan, describes the forging of that will, as Don Juan-without drugs -communicates the lessons of the warrior's power to his obstinately Cartesian student in the bright burnt mountains and lava gorges of Mexico...
THEY marched out of those ads that Henry Ford runs for his cars. They came from the families that Polaroid tells about at Christmas time, a little overweight and a little overhappy. They arrived in Hart, Schaffner & Marx, with burnt orange by Arrow. Their jaws seemed firmer, teeth bigger and whiter, complexions clearer, shoulders wider, backs straighter than the Democrats', and they had handshakes likes vises. Wandering across the convention floor was like strolling down Main Street with some side excursions up its suburban companion, Elm Street. There was the clean fragrance of Mennen's Skin Bracer and the soft...
...have been shot in doorways of their homes or found tied and gagged, with bullets through their heads, in the trunks of burnt-out cars. Most have been mutilated or tortured. David McGlenaghan, a mentally retarded youth of 15, was killed when gunmen invaded his home and shot him as he lay sleeping. Harry Russell, 23, a male nurse from Carrick-Fergus on the outskirts of Belfast, was found shot through the head in a back alley, covered with torture marks and stab wounds, including a T for "Traitor" burned into his skin...
...week's end, the South Vietnamese task force at Quang Tri was inching its way forward, with the help of U.S. air strikes, toward the center of Quang Tri city. One such strike, Hillenbrand reported, transformed a thickly wooded enemy bunker position into a cluster of burnt-out tree stumps, "as if some triple-strength forest fire had passed that way." If past performance is any guide, the North Vietnamese will probably put up a mettlesome resistance before withdrawing-and the NVA still has plenty of long-range artillery in the hills to the west of the city. Nonetheless...