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...impossible to measure success by the accomplishment or failure of one campaign. When a people has been sealed into a hotbox world for centuries, unexposed to the real fruits of ambition, their progress toward equality must be determined on a smaller scale. If a child decides to transfer to a "white" high school, or a group of people really begins to understand that it was not born different but made so, then you have accomplished something. If you can teach them that they can gain equality by working for it then the visible signs of progress are sure to come...
...Corona, Calif., Elizabeth ("Ma ") Duncan, 58, waited in women's prison for transfer to San Quentin, where she was scheduled to die in a gas chamber for being so jealous of the 30-year-old nurse who married her son that she hired two thugs to kill the bride...
...Ernest Hemingway (who does, however, earn a boy's stern moral disapproval as "one of the crowd of degenerate Americans who settled . . . in Paris after the war"). Dreiser's English is "bum," and John Dos Passos rouses a boy's puritanism with the "unalleviatedly filthy" Manhattan Transfer...
...state employees under his control, but granted a million-dollar raise to 1.775 teamsters in the highways division. He banned new hiring, except for emergencies, yet the number of employees grew. The new employees, he lamely explains, were an "absolute necessity." Without approval of the legislature, he cannot transfer money from the few special funds that have a surplus into the nearly empty general revenue fund-yet he refuses to call a special session. "I will not take the risk of an unproductive session." he says...
...Carpenter decided the time had come to settle down. He went back to the university, met and married a pretty, vivacious usherette named Rene Price, and planned to become a Navy pilot after graduation. Despite his new determination, Carpenter found he still could not pass a course in heat transfer that he needed for his degree. But the Navy somehow assumed that he had completed work for his degree and took him back. Seeing a career opening up, Carpenter kept mum about his academic failure...