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...Stanford University's Roble Hall is 30% black and the gathering place for other black students. At dinner, blacks eat in one dining room, whites in the other. Afterward, blacks play cards in the lounge while whites stay away. "There are times when the lounge belongs to the blacks, like after dinner, and then the whites take over later in the evening," says Glenn Garvin, a white sophomore living in Roble. "If you try and mix, you feel like a bullshit liberal; if you don't, you feel like a racist. It's a very uncomfortable situation...
...measure of local strength. By that measure, the results were pretty much a standoff; despite some trading of ground in the 18 state contests, there was little change in the balance of gubernatorial power. Going into the election, the Democrats led the Republicans by 30 states to 20, and afterward the ratio remained substantially unchanged. The G.O.P. continued to trail in the overall total, but it still claimed most of the big states, despite an important setback in Illinois...
...Iowa Air Guard ?and the weekend jet flying he loved ?rather than trim his mustache one-quarter inch at each end and so comply with a new directive against "bushy-appearing" upper lips. Most of Ottumwa sympathized with Bach on that horrendous issue. But not long afterward he scandalized his congregation by withdrawing from the Church of Christ, Scientist, not because he disagrees with much of its teaching but because he has come to hate all religious labels and says flatly, "Organization can ruin anything." (Similarly, on a more frivolous matter, Bach stopped sending Christmas cards...
Brass-Band Welcome. Shortly afterward came a memorial Roman Catholic Mass. The principal celebrant, a graying, robust man whose lean, lined face seemed at home in the crowd of Polish worshipers, was John Cardinal Krol, Archbishop of Philadelphia. Krol's father had come from Poland, and the cardinal won the crowd immediately by addressing them in fluent, if accented Polish. "I was never a prisoner in a concentration camp," he said. "I was never captured or exiled. I never suffered [your] scourges. I bow my head...
...collections. He likes to travel but has no hobbies. Böll was on his way to Israel when he heard of his prize. He expressed the usual joy and surprise, though only a hermit could not have heard the rumors that swirl like falling leaves each autumn. Shortly afterward, his son Vinzent ungraciously announced that, indeed, his father had been expecting the award. What the young man apparently did not realize was how many other writers were also on tiptoe...