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...much angry controversy. From the moment Mexico City was named as the site, arguments raged over the possible effects of its 7,349-foot altitude on the athletes. Sex became a bitter issue when international sports federations started demanding a gender test of all female competitors, and some girls withdrew rather than submit to the embarrassment. A worldwide protest that threatened to close down the whole show forced the International Olympic Committee to reinstate its ban on segregated South Africa. All year long, black militants in the U.S. tried - and fortunately failed-to organize a boycott by Negro athletes...
Next day, at Fortas' request, Lyndon Johnson withdrew the nomination. It was a profound humiliation for the President. Said Johnson: "The action of the Senate, a body I revere and to which I devoted a dozen years of my life, is historically and constitutionally tragic." Johnson was referring to the fact that the Senate had never actually voted on the merits of the nomination, only on the procedural question of giving it formal consideration. All but forgotten was another loser in the affair: Homer Thornberry, who was to have replaced Fortas as an Associate Justice on the court. Since...
...after a torrid love scene, the chemistry stopped. Brown refuses to discuss the matter. Says Raquel: "I don t know what happened after that. At table, I remember asking for the salt one day and hearing 'Get it yourself; its not black.' Jim just sort of withdrew into himself, and he's never come...
...Africa and early carved cinnebar lacquerware, lent by a Japanese temple. But it was in defiance of Mongol tastes that one of the greatest of China's arts-scroll painting-made the largest advance of all. The most inventive Chinese painters, the wen-jen, or literary men, withdrew from the court, preferring to paint and write poetry for a small coterie in the country...
Later Humphrey withdrew his statement after Clark Clifford stated the Administration had "no intention" of withdrawing troops "either by next June or at anytime in the foreseeable future." The Secretary of Defense added that "we have not yet reached the level of 549,500 troops set up by President Johnson" and that "we intend to continue to build toward that level...