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Hidden, smooth, and often smiling decisions of American leaders... pin the backs of the masses of Negroes against the steaming ghetto walls--without jobs in a booming economy; with dilapidated and segregated housing in the full view of unenforced laws against it... this is the real problem and not the anguished cry for "black power...
Miserable on Champagne. The miracle of "it" all was that the thieves had missed the pearls, which Marylou had casually dropped into her bedroom dresser drawer. But they hadn't missed much else: her diamond engagement ring, Sonny's mother's diamond necklace, ruby and sapphire pins, even the turquoise owl pin that Marylou recalled sadly was "the first thing Sonny ever gave me." Even more maddening, there were no clues. Five of the six servants had taken off the night of the theft; the butler had locked every door but the front one. As the police...
...slums are too large and too numerous, the plight of the Negro too desperate, for the U.S. to pin its hopes for racial calm on police action or hasty economic palliatives. What is needed in addition is proof positive to the Negro that he can find justice and hope in America, and that he can find it soon...
Thus, in a curious way, anonymity is a Washington status symbol. I know a couple of run-of-the-mill Senators who have tried for years to get reporters to pin their own ascribed views to the high-sounding "associates of the Senator," but they just can't get any takers. The last Senator who demanded and got the cloak of anonymity as a matter of course was Lyndon Johnson. The only one who gets it regularly now is Robert Kennedy. You can tell whose stock is rising...
...more than 25 undercover narcotics agents, who arrest an average of 20 hippies a week, usually for possession of marijuana. Busted hippies in turn come back under orders to inform on their suppliers, but the drug sources are so varied and elusive that the "narco" squad has yet to pin down any major outlet...