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...which was demoralizing enough. Even more humiliating was the outcome of a Republican move to recommit the bill with instructions to substitute the G.O.P. plan. Of 136 Republicans voting on the motion, 44 opposed it-an astonishing defection rate of 33%. At the same time, the G.O.P. effort wrought a rare show of Democratic unity, with only eight out of 287 defecting...
...making his pilgrimage to Mecca and being received as a true believer. He wore the white robe that signified his faith. In the four days before his burial, more than 20,000 persons, almost all Negroes, filed past his body as it lay on view in a glass-topped, wrought-copper casket. Following Muslim custom, when Malcolm was buried in suburban Westchester's Ferncliff Cemetery, his head was to the east, toward Mecca...
...m.p.h. winds forced Bonatti and two friends to abandon a similar assault, he was back on the mountain, alone, inching up the ice-covered rock that leans slightly from the perpendicular (TIME, Feb. 26). It was four days before he finally staggered onto the summit, briefly embraced a wrought-iron cross, then started the descent to Zermatt and a hero's welcome...
Plaudits. On the night of the dinner, the Dinkier Plaza Hotel ballroom was filled. Said Mayor Allen: "Through the years, as history is wrought, some men are destined to be leaders of humanity and to shape the future course of the world. Dr. King is such a man. I take great pride in honoring this citizen of Atlanta who is willing to turn the other cheek in his quest for full citizenship for all Americans...
...believe, Britain must change the very milieu in which its economy operates, acquiring in the process a thirst for efficiency and modernization. The nation that sired the Industrial Revolution two centuries ago needs a new revolution. It can be nothing less than the sort of upheaval that Jean Monnet wrought in France, when in the mid-'50s he was able to shake his nation out of its sloppy practices. The Labor government has made only a beginning: it has offered tax rebates to companies that increase their trade abroad, given new hope and esprit to the scientific community. Last...