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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...smart, he has used his local position as a member of the Georgia legislature to achieve national prominence as a hall-packing speaker. A less glamorous but no less aggressive politician is Charles Evers, one of a growing number of black officials in small Southern towns. In Fayette, Miss., Evers has refused to yield before assassination threats, and is demonstrating that blacks can run a local government efficiently?without resorting to racism in reverse...
Apparently, the electronic summer is getting off to an early start. Israeli pilots, flying the Phantoms provided earlier by the U.S., have learned to bomb from low ranges at which they can scarcely miss. They have also learned, like U.S. pilots in Viet Nam, to recognize the "Sam song"-the change of pitch in tracking signals that indicates that a highflying surface-to-air missile is pursuing them. The Sam song means that the time for escape and evasion has come. Russia, however, is now supplying Egypt with the more advanced SA-3, a smaller, solid-fuel missile designed...
...food may be better here, but I miss Mary and the other serving ladies of Adams...
...Garbo knew what she was doing when she painted that line above her eyelid," he said. "And Mac West! I saw her at a party a while ago. She came up to me and said. 'Mr. Crowley,"-and here he imitated Miss West-"'Honey-I wrote your play forty years ago. It was called Drag and it closed after one performance in Pat terson. New Jersey...
...salespeople knew the stock and enjoyed showing it . . . Barbers came to the house if desired . . . Mail and milk were delivered along with newspapers in time for breakfast . . . Elevators were run by operators who said 'Good morning,' reported the weather, and took in messages and parcels." This, as Miss Bird notes, was clearly efficiency for the few based on the poverty and despair of many. In those days of unemployment rates ranging up to 25% of the work force, any job was a treasure to be treated with devotion. Several people were waiting to replace any sluggish or surly worker...