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Their activities have not been confined to propaganda. Once, three teachers and a headmistress were seared by acid when they tried to resist Red infiltration. A school inspector was shot in the street, and in Penang, where a similar campaign is under way, a school headmaster was murdered. As a result of such tactics, teachers and parents alike have either knuckled under or taken refuge in apathy...
...Question of Honesty. In an interchange with Rogers, Chief Justice Earl Warren brought forth a significant admission: the Southerners' request that enforcement be left, without deadlines, to U.S. District Courts really cloaks an intention to resist desegregation. Warren asked: "You are not willing to say that there would be an honest attempt to conform to this decree, if we did leave it to the District Court...
...Banks," wrote FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover in a recent warning sent to bankers, "are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money." Hoover urged that, to resist, banks install armed guards, electronic alarms, tear gas and other protective devices. All these cost money, which banks are reluctant to spend, a fact that makes them even more irresistible...
...Chinese Communists that the United States intends to contain them, not destroy them. It would go far toward re-assuring our allies and Asian opinion that we are committed to the concept of limited war in self-defense. Above all, a clear assertion of the American determination to resist aggression with as little loss to enemy civilians as possible would provide a needed clarification of our moral position in the world...
Beetle v. Geoid. If the earth were a perfect sphere, he says, it would not be stable on its axis. The "smallest beetle crawling over it would change the axis of rotation in relation to markings on the sphere" because there would be no force to resist the kickback of the beetle's crawling. But the earth is not a perfect sphere; it is a geoid slightly flattened at the poles by the centrifugal force of its rotation. So it spins like a fat flywheel on the short axis between the poles...