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DENIAL of voting rights to Negroes, though a blot on the South, is by no means as widespread as many Northern civil rights advocates believe. Through Texas, Arkansas and the Border States, Negroes not only register and vote but make such an impact at local-election levels that both parties bid for their support. In North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Florida, urban Negroes generally register and vote, while rural Negroes do not. The greatest concentration of civil rights violations at the polls lies in four states of the Deep South, and the statistics readily prove the point...
...Better World. Though some Vatican leaders still call the Latin American clergy as a whole the church's "biggest single blot," the new ways are spreading. In Havana, Manuel Cardinal Arteaga has avoided taking sides, but Archbishop Enrique Pérez Serantes of Santiago specifically condemned government violence in a pastoral letter last month. Most of the priests in Oriente province openly sympathize with Rebel Leader Castro. In Venezuela the leading Catholic prelate, Caracas Archbishop Rafael Arias, dared to condemn the stern dictatorship of Marcos Perón Jimónez for the inequitable distribution of the country...
...addition to these elite, several sophomore Whiz Kids blossomed out to join the ranks of the heroic. John deKiewiet was unbeaten all year in the high jump. Consistently around six feet, two inches, he appears sure bet to erase the one blot on Harvard's glorious escutcheon--a feeble 6 feet 31/2 inch high jump record...
...invented." Often the lecturer would do himself and his students a service if he mimeographed his remarks and let the student read them quietly in a library. In any case, the danger of the lecture as a means of pouring out quantities of information which the student tries to blot up by frantic notetaking is apparent. The listener becomes the passive object of one-way communication with a vocal text-book...
...blot was removed from the 1956 Salk vaccine record. The death of James Thomson, 15, of Mount Vernon, Wash., had officially been reported as resulting from polio, although he had three shots of Salk vaccine (TIME, Dec. 24). More detailed studies of the boy's tissues now show that he died of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a rare disease of the brain and spinal cord, easily confused with polio. There remains only one 1956 case of a child's death attributed to polio despite triple vaccination, and this is no longer provable...