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...ancient vehicle of psychiatry to explain the important issues. They have further disturbed the story of a young Negro surveyor alone among white soldiers on a dangerous wartime reconnaissance mission by the inclusion of a series of glib, easily-typed characters, each with a varying degree of racial bias. The result is pat and talky, and effect that remains through to the traditionally "happy" ending. It is hard to believe that a lifetime of acute unhappiness, a lifetime of being treated as something of a freak, and a harrowing combat patrol can be completely wiped out of one's consciousness...
...liberal arts colleges as for graduate, professional, and secretarial schools; here discrimination may mean not only loss of an education, but also loss of job opportunities. Proponents of Senate 133 say that those schools which follow a non-discriminatory policy ordinarily have nothing to fear from anti-bias legislation, while those that have the questions and quotas can alter their stand without waiting for commission pressure...
...latter bill defines unfair educational practices and sets up a special office to investigate charges of bias in educational organizations and machinery for ordering guilty institutions to cease and desist from use of discrimination...
...representative of the Boston University Young Progressives asserted that the inability of the late Walter A. Pollano '50 to secure entrance to medical school was due to discrimination. The BU speaker alleged that Pollano's suicide is an illustration of the sometimes tragic consequences of bias in colleges and professional schools
...home and overseas. In Paris he told European leaders, assembled to blueprint economic cooperation: "Make no small plans, for they have no magic to stir the imagination of men." He preached the gospel of productivity, the continuous planning of improved production techniques. He found that European industrialists had a bias against new methods, just as U.S. producers had a bias in favor of them. In America's cities he told his hearers of ECA's success in stopping Communism, of what was being done and what remained to be done...