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...Germans like to celebrate and need heroes, perhaps more than any other people, and they cherish the chance to cheer. More than that the July 20 celebration gives them an opportunity to show the world that there were Germans who opposed Hitler and that modern Germans stand on the side of that opposition...
...Administration, of course, denies that its recent actions were designed to appeal to Southern sentiment, and insists that both the court appointment and the school-desegregation decisions were made solely on their merits. Such disclaimers did not seem to have registered with his well-wishers. Not only did they cheer Nixon, but they also applauded Attorney General John Mitchell -widely regarded as the architect of the Administration's Southern strategy -almost as enthusiastically as they did the President. "The people feel he went down the line on those school guidelines," explained Democratic Representative G. V. ("Sonny") Montgomery. "They feel...
...Such cheer as Burns inspired was short-lived. In flew President Nixon to inform the Governors that "dreams of unlimited billions being released once the war in Viet Nam ends are just that-dreams. True, there will be additional money, but the claims on it already are enormous. There should be no illusion that what some call the 'peace and growth dividend' will automatically solve our national problems." Added the President: "In order to find the money for new programs, we will have to trim it out of old ones...
...built, there were not enough competent Libyan teachers to staff them. The shortage was eased by importing Egyptians, many of whom were aflame with Nasserite notions of Arab unity and socialism. During the brief periods when the curfew was lifted last week, young men in Tripoli swarmed out to cheer the revolution, and schoolgirls built triumphal arches of branches and flowers on scores of streets. Libyan embassies in Damascus, Rome and Athens were seized by young Libyan students and officers studying abroad...
...psychology are the 100 million Americans who either own shares or participate in the stock market indirectly through pension funds and mutual funds. For many families, tumbling stock prices have at least temporarily shattered some cherished dreams. Yet the market's unsettled state brings a wry kind of cheer to Washington's inflation fighters. In their rather clinical view, stock prices are much like spinach prices or durable-goods orders: an economic indicator. Because the market mirrors investors' expectations of the performance of U.S. business, it is a valuable (but sometimes flawed) barometer of the economic future...