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...Grew. Ashe's dramatic triumphs established him as the most promising young U.S. player in years. A policeman's son, he was born in Richmond, Va., grew up only a few yards from a tennis court, where he started batting tennis balls around as soon as he was able to hold a racket. In 1953, a Lynchburg physician, Walter Johnson, spotted Ashe as a potentially fine player. Dr. Johnson knows his tennis talent. It was he who helped steer Althea Gibson (TIME cover...
...Policeman who had said that "they can stay here as long as they want," when the demonstrators blocked the Northwest gate Friday, changed their minds after the protesters spread out and blocked all seven entrances to the White House...
...when the Negro attempts to move towards these ends he's going to be confronted with a policeman with a club," he predicted. He asserted that the federal government therefore "must fulfill its responsibility of protecting people against violence in the deep South...
...themselves on letting a columnist say what he pleases, but last week Walter Lippmann said more than the editors of the New York Herald Tribune had bargained for. Writing once again from his own "neoisolationist" viewpoint, Lippmann declared: "My own view is that the conception of ourselves as the policeman of mankind is a dangerous form of selfdelusion. It is dangerous to profess and pretend that we can be the policeman of the world. How many more Dominican Republics can the U.S. police in this hemisphere? How many Viet Nams can the U.S defend in Asia...
...many Viet Nams the U.S. can defend in Asia, perhaps the best reply is an indirect one. How many are there to be? And if we yield in the present confrontation, how much more difficult will be the next? For better or for worse, the U.S. is the 'policeman' on which the threatened peoples in China's expansionist path depend for whatever hope they have of independence and freedom...