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...mutual rage and hostility. The white one wanted to sit down, but he was going to exert his authority and force the black one to get up first-so that they would not have to sit side by side. I watched the driver's face in the rearview mirror...
Then, apparently, the driver decided to forget the whole thing. The next stop was Main Street, and when he got there, in what seemed to be a flash of lightning, he flung both doors open wide. He and his black antagonist looked at each other in the rearview mirror; in a second the windbreaker and the porkpie hat were gone. The little woman was standing preaching to the whole bus about the Government's gift of these seats to the blacks; the white man with the brown shoes practically fell out of the door in his hurry. I followed...
...tepid. Said one critic: "No one could possibly enthuse about it." What did enthuse just about everyone, however, was the latest chapter in another royal matter-whether Charlie will finally settle down and wed the fair Lady Diana Spencer, 19. Last week's installment was a Daily Mirror centerfold that reported a Milquetoast proposal from Charles: "If I were to ask you, do you think it would be possible?" and a decidedly less ambiguous ultimatum from the Queen: "Marry her by this summer...
...foreign reaction was more acerbic. The Amsterdam daily Volkskrant called Clark a nitwit. The Johannesburg Citizen labeled him the "Don't Know Man." Editorialized the London Daily Mirror: "America's allies in Europe-Europe, Mr. Clark, you must have heard of it -will hope he is never in charge at a time of crisis." Yet the Daily Mirror joked that Britain once had a Foreign Secretary who was "alleged to believe that Sodom and Gomorrah were sisters...
When the Young Socialists recommended their chairman, Andrew Bevan, then age 24, as the Labor Party's National Youth Officer back in 1976, the hue and cry was immediate. London's Daily Mirror was quick to call him "Red Andy" and "a dangerous representative of Trotskyist infiltration." The Times editorialized that Bevan was a "subversive element" and likened his appointment to "soldiers under siege being asked suddenly to accept the command of one of the enemy." An array of Labor stalwarts, including Michael Foot and then Prime Minister James Callaghan, objected to Bevan's selection...