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...Portuguese rulers may sympathize with Prime Minister Ian Smith and his white rebels but who long ago learned to cover their bets. Said an official of the last major colonialist power in Africa: "Portugal will pursue her policy of cooperation with her African neighbors as long as those countries refrain from adopting a policy hostile to Portugal...
...beyond the Supreme Court's current doctrine that Northern school boards may or may not remedy de facto segregation, as they please. In a still unique state-court reading of the 14th Amendment, Gibson ruled in Jackson v. Pasadena that California school boards can no longer merely refrain from discrimination. "It is up to the school boards," he said, "to eliminate racial imbalance in schools regardless of its cause." In 1963 Traynor spoke for his court in issuing another U.S. precedent: the idea that even non-negligent manufacturers now have "strict liability" to consumers injured by their defective products...
Martin Luther King, 36, is concentrating on racial issues in his weekly column. Capitalizing on the evocative refrain from the speech he made at the civil rights march to Washington in 1963, he calls his column "My Dream." It is an expansive dream indeed. The column, his syndicate says, "will deal with the need for creative nonviolence around the globe, for a spiritual renaissance, for peace and for understanding, as well as for freedom from totalitarianism in all its forms, and dignity in Bogalusa and Harlem...
...audiences seem in no mood to complain. Advance sales and guarantees have already reached $500,000, and some of the profits will go toward the regiments' band and uniform funds. So warm was the response that at the first-act finale the audience swung into a fervent refrain...
...That refrain, hope fully, will be echoed elsewhere when the company strikes out next week in four buses and five 40-ft. vans to tour 70 cities. The christening in Indianapolis was symbolic. "We felt very strongly," explains Risë Stevens, who with Michael Manuel is co-manager of the troupe, "that if we were going to be a national company, we should start right in the center of the country...