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Where the Administration would rely chiefly on the Constitution's interstate commerce clause to impose a ban on discrimination in public accommodations, the Republicans would use the 14th Amendment, and their prohibition would apply to a wider range of public accommodations. Also, the Republicans would give the Justice Department broad authority to bring suit on behalf of any person denied his 14th Amendment rights-as long as that person can prove he has no other way of getting legal satisfaction...
...Hughes concluded, the professor has another more hopeful alternative: to recall and reactivate the wider interests and more personal goals he has ruthlessly curbed to pursue his special discipline. Like Freud or Henry Adams, he can provide original insights in new fields as an amateur...
...keeping segregated despite court rulings by "selling" to a private party, was a prime symbol of discrimination. Knight wanted to blow it up--white swimmers and all. I argued for demonstrations, saying that these would involve more Negroes than a simple demolition job, and so lead to a longer, wider struggle. And I remarked the possibility of victory and suggested there should be something left to swim...
...been the exception. Today it remains the exception. And today it remains the issue. Controls, coercion, compromise with tyranny are the marks of the New Frontier; big words and petty deeds are its adjectives and verbs; promises are its substitutes for performance, and its vision of issue is no wider than its view of electoral expediency...
...bombers summarizes the whole project, to De Gaulle it is the beginning of his independent force de frappe, and as such a modest guarantee of an independent course for France. The rift between the U.S. and De Gaulle over the shape of the Western Alliance has never been wider. When French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Nurville conferred with President Kennedy last week, paving the way for a De Gaulle visit to the U.S. next year, the difference of their opinions made it, in the words of one diplomat, "a dialogue of the deaf...