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...Butler promised that he will relentlessly press the issue of civil rights and party regularity. Soon, he will announce the appointment of Eleanor Roosevelt as.chairman of a new group to draft some stiff civil rights platform proposals. The chances are "very strong" that he will send forth "task forces" of lawyers to investigate and recommend reprisals against the seven skittish Southern states which have indicated they may revolt rather than swallow a too-bitter civil rights pill...
...Prince Philip. On assignment from the Tatler, Tony managed to inject into his pictures of society dowagers and hunt balls a touch of lightheartedness. His first commission for the royal family, in 1956, was a 21st birthday picture of the Duke of Kent, which helped bring the era of stiff, formal pictures of royalty to an end. Tony's childhood studies of young Prince Charles and Princess Anne, and his coolly beautiful portrait of Margaret on her 29th birthday, made his reputation as a "society photographer." It is a label he disliked, and Tony prowled London streets...
...whose adman father ($30,000 a year) can afford to send her anywhere. He already has-to Britain, France, Italy-but she has never been west of Ohio. She writes well and hopes to be a magazine editor, but her math and science marks hover at C. Against stiff competition, she might barely get into an Eastern woman's college. But why not Northwestern, California's Mills College, or even the University of Hawaii? For her, each would offer much...
...states that have extremely low personal incomes relative to the number of schoolchildren." In 1957-58, for example, eleven mainly Southern states with 22% of U.S. public school pupils spent less for education than 80% of the national average. To climb even to this level would have required a stiff (and "unlikely") spending boost, from 13% in Maine to 63% in Mississippi...
...house. Then the phone rings. And even after the poor slaphappy slayer manages to bury the evidence, he has an unpleasant surprise in store: the man he killed was not the blackmailer, who has been found dead in a Manhattan hotel. But then who in Connecticut is the poor stiff...