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Lowe's comments on the failings of the Boston schools are forthright and articulate, and he states them with intense energy. Yet he is not a firebrand, nor even a political activist. While valuing the services of Negro organizations like the NAACP, Lowe was rather skeptical about the tactical worth of Mel King's candidacy for the School Committee. He insists on concrete methods and concrete results; politics encourages ideology and acute racial self-consciousness, both of which he dislikes. Lowe heartily resents all kinds of discriminatory abuses, but he is reluctant to to call segregation the chief problem facing...
...Atlantic salutes you for your forthright appreciation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" also appeared in full in the Atlantic for August...
...with Chancellor Erhard, lunch with ex-Chancellor Adenauer. In Paris, lunch with French Premier Pompidou, a dinner with "Mr. Europe," Jean Monnet. In Brussels, a dinner with a picked group of Common Market Eurocrats. By now the businessmen, whose questioning of experts had been diffident at first, had become forthright. When the Common Market's Vice Chairman Robert Marjolin, a Yale-educated French Social ist, called for questions, he was asked: "Why should a bunch of American capitalists put their trust in a bunch of Socialist Eurocrats...
...Negroes in their drive for civil rights and his high regard for President Kennedy's efforts to aid that drive. The Emperor insisted on meeting N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, laid a 50-lb. solid silver wreath, fashioned from Ethiopian coins, at the Lincoln Memorial. In his forthright speech to the U.N.'s General Assembly, Selassie declared: "The Administration of President Kennedy is leading a vigorous attack to eradicate the remaining vestiges of racial discrimination from this country. We know that this conflict will be won and that right will triumph...
Several weeks ago President Kennedy said that he knew his forthright stand on civil rights had hurt him politicaly. Now that voters in his own back yard have indicated their differences with him, the question seems to be: how much