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...Exchequer, said ruefully: "One of the Prince Regent's physicians earned a certain notoriety, though not perhaps very large fees, by telling his royal patient that all that was wrong with him was that he was too greedy. That was no doubt unpopular, and politicians have no occupational bias in favor of unpopularity. But I must confess that something of the sort seems a fair description of us and our economy...
Next fall, announced Washington's Sidwell Friends School, "a limited number of qualified Negro students" will be admitted to the school's kindergarten. Among the students now attending all-white Sidwell: three children of Mississippi's arch-segregationist Senator James O. Eastland, loudest voice of the bias-bawling white Citizens' Council. On hearing the news. Mrs. Elizabeth Eastland gulped: "It comes as a surprise." Affably drawled Jim Eastland: "No comment." The Senator's consolation, if he decides to let his children stay at Sidwell: unless his kiddies flunk several grades, or some of the late...
Nothing points up the pro-Arab bias of TIME more than the brief letter by Nasser [Nov. 28], in which he expresses his "admiration for the article dealing with the Egyptian revolution." In the same issue you publish an anti-American-Jewish piece by William Zukerman [JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES]. Let TIME and Zukerman note that I and a vast number of American Jews are not Zionists, or particularly favorable toward Zionism, but we feel bitterly that Israel is getting a raw deal. Jew or no Jew, in the great American tradition, I am for the underdog...
...colonial problem in Singapore, without losing control of the rich commercial port, has been to let the people govern themselves. Singaporeans responded last April by electing a Labor Front government led by a spaniel-eyed criminal lawyer named David Marshall, who campaigned noisily on an anti-British, anticolonial bias, but in office has had to rely on British help to maintain order. In the past nine months there have been 220 strikes in Singapore, mostly Communist-inspired, aimed at crippling the port's economy...
...analysis will reveal whether a landlord has rented to Jewish, foreign, non-white, Asian, or African students. Hunt declared that the housing office "will do anything it can to discourage discrimination of any kind," but he said bias would not result in automatic refusals to list a room...