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...being sanctified. Negro leaders called him "brilliant," said he had recently "moderated" his views, blamed his assassination on "the white power structure" or, in the case of Martin Luther King, on a "society sick enough to express dissent with murder." Malcolm's death, they agreed, was a setback to the civil rights movement...
Last week the play suffered a slight setback when Monte Carlo unceremoniously closed the casino doors to the delegation from Down Under. Still, the same Las Vegas operators who would not believe that the two-armed Aussies could outsmart one-armed bandits stood by expectantly for the hordes of tyros sure to buy the book and flock to Las Vegas to get rich quick. A few may, but as Clampett warns, bandit-beating takes skill as well as quarters...
...team also lost two games--a 4-2 setback against Michigan and a less-satisfying 8-0 walloping at the hands of B.U. The Terriors, held to a 1-0 overtime victory over Harvard earlier in the season, were making up for their first loss of the season, against Northeastern the night before...
...other people's nests. Wasserman is a corporate president in show business, a modified First National City banker who has wandered through an unusual door, and he has shaped MCA into a trimly efficient manufacturing corporation, ample in size, and self-sufficient, whose net earnings have risen without setback from $7,200,000 in 1959 to $13.6 million in 1963-and 1964 is well ahead of last year...
...Johnson, this concept in no way represents a forfeiture of leadership. It means merely that he is willing to accept slow but steady progress toward the "great society" he envisions, rather than risk a setback or stalemate by trying to knock heads together. Johnson's great society does not consist of some grand philosophic design. Johnson distrusts philosophy. He is a pragmatist, and his interest lies in moving step by step toward clearly attainable goals...