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...must leave the Houses because they get married. Yearly they go through the inconvenience of finding another apartment and yearly the Masters go out and look for replacements. The necessity to leave involves more than inconvenience. The tutor who leaves after a year or so has only begun to attain the familiarity with the House's students and their problems that was to make his living there worthwhile. The fact that he has had to leave certainly discourages the good men who, although planning to marry, would like to become tutors...
Jane Bullock, as Laura, is responsible for much of the success the play managers to attain. In the first scene, she is eating dinner, picking at her food with the nervous movements of a deer. From that moment, her tremulous voice and brittle gestures create the image of a glass girl who is just as fragile as her tiny companions...
...forget the price of appeasing totalitarian regimes. I congratulate you on your thoughtful Essay, in which you distinguish between those who sincerely seek the right to dissent from Government policies and those lawless zealots who, by their "monopoly on humanitarianism," arbitrarily define God-given morality and seek to attain their ends by Machiavellian civil disobedience...
...first Negro to attain so many high public offices, Rowan, 39, will now become the top Negro syndicated columnist. While such civil rights leaders as Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young Jr. write columns largely on racial topics, Rowan will comment on the news in general for the Chicago Daily News. "This is going to be journalism," he said last week. "What I bring to this column is knowledge of what is going on inside this Government and other governments. This is what I'm offering editors, not the color of my face...
Strengthening Prestige. In exchange for its largesse, France will be assured of enough Algerian oil to satisfy growing French consumption (which doubled to 309 million barrels between 1959 and 1964) and thereby will attain Charles de Gaulle's goal of independence from the Anglo-American oil companies. By paying francs for oil from the only major source within the franc zone, France will also save $280 million a year in foreign exchange. Perhaps most important, the agreement is a long step toward returning Algeria politically-as well as financially-to France's sphere of influence. It also serves...