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Chances for passing a strong civil rights bill have apparently been enhanced. The bill was originally inspired by the outcry following the Birmingham demonstrations last spring; but as the legislative process dragged on, the emotional fervor behind the bill waned and people began to have second thoughts. Extremist opposition in the South grew more virulent, ensuring the silence of all but a few moderates. Encouraged by fear-mongers, some Northerners began to dread what genuine civil rights might mean for the job market, property values, and their children's schools...
...cops do it. In Rome and Madrid, moppets in dancing class do it. Frenchmen perform the ritual with sinuous grace, Spaniards smackingly, Germans with a click of the heels. However widely their techniques may vary, Europeans from Barcelona to Bialystok in recent years have taken to hand kissing with fervor and frequency unmatched in their history. After World War II, the custom seemed in decline. But today, men of virtually every class and calling on the Continent dive for distaff knuckles as assiduously, if not always so expertly, as do the courtiers in a Lehar operetta...
That crowd was too big for Hassan, who proposed a cozier group to meet in Bamako, Mali, with President Keita, Emperor Haile Selassie and Ben Bella. Although Algeria finally agreed, neither side seemed particularly eager to settle the war, because the political benefits of patriotic fervor were considerable. Ben Bella was drafting all his unemployed into the army, and Hassan's own domestic opposition faded, at least temporarily, while crowds cheered him and kissed his hands...
...chief of U.S. naval operations from 1933 to 1937, wartime Ambassador to the Soviet Union, where he kept lend-lease flowing while pressing Stalin to tell the Russian people about U.S. efforts on their behalf, grew so disgusted that after the war he campaigned against the Communists with such fervor that in 1959 he bitterly protested when San Diego used a red Christmas star atop a civic center; of pneumonia; in San Diego...
...seventh-floor executive suite. He makes sure to get out of the basement before 9:30-for that is a dangerous hour at Filene's. As soon as the opening gong rings, a stampede of waiting shoppers surges through the doors and overruns the basement with a fervor that has often caused near-riots. They are there to get first pick of the low-cost luxuries that have made Filene's Basement the world's most unusual bargain store...