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...blackout tried everyone's resources???and few would admit defeat. In stalled elevators and trains, passengers improvised games, including one whose object was to suggest the unlikeliest partners for stalled elevator cars (samples: Jean-Paul Sartre and Norman Vincent Peale; Defense Secretary McNamara and a draft-card burner; any Con Edison executive and any New York housewife). Trapped office workers improvised candles with copies of Book Week and rubber cement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Northeast: The Disaster That Wasn't | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...reformed itself . . . Mankind is sick of fear and disbelief . . . If America in actual practice could show the world [that] the Negro became finally integrated into modern democracy, all mankind would be given faith again . . . and America would have spiritual power many times stronger than all her financial and military resources???the power of the trust and support of all good people on earth. America is free to choose whether the Negro shall remain her liability or become her opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The U. S. Negro, 1953 | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

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