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Boston Mayor John Collins, rather than worry about integrating the city's school system, has decided to try to blunt the cutting edge of the Commonwealth's racial imbalance law. He is asking the General Court for permission to borrow $6.3 million to cover funds withheld by the state last year, when Boston failed to submit a satisfactory plan for integration; that permission should be refused...
...example within the next few months, and promising negotiations also are under way with Czechoslova-w rn?1-8 alarms East German Boss Walter Ulbncht, 73, who fears that West German presence in the East might iso ate his own unlovely Stalinist regime Jlbricht has done his best to blunt the Bonn drive. His ambassadors in east-bloc capitals have been talking themselves hoarse about the dangers of West German revanche and the evils of deserting Communism's united front Ulbricht even appealed to the Soviet Union to call a halt to the trafficking with Bonn...
...order to end "the state of uncertainty" at the university. Speaker Unruh, who the day before had implicitly rejected Kerr's admissions freeze, declared that it set "a very dangerous precedent" to fire a president when an incoming Governor takes over. University officials, however, feared that the blunt manner of his dis missal would have an adverse effect on faculty recruiting. At some campuses, student organizations that less than a year ago were ready to demonstrate for Kerr's dismissal, made plans to demonstrate on his behalf. Campus leaders warned that the regents' action was a preliminary...
...Gustaf began digging for viking relies in, of all places, the gardens of Sweden's sumer castle. He found none, but that did not blunt his enthusiasm for further exporation. He studied archaeology at Uppsala University, and while a student, unearthed one of his nation's most precious artifacts-a gold-plated sword dating from Sweden's Iron Age. As the young Crown Prince, Gustaf in 1926 visited the Orient, where he met Swedish archaeologists busy uncovering China's prehistoric ages. Fascinated by the similarity between Viking and ancient Chinese bronze objects, Gustaf began collecting, helped...
...front runner for the nomination. Gathering in the suite of Colorado's John Love, they discussed ways to corral and keep delegates for Romney-as at least a pre-convention symbol of G.O.P. moderation if not necessarily as the moderates' most-wanted candidate. The Governors' blunt advice to Romney, whom they consider too impressed by polls and favorable publicity: he can win the nomination only by working hard from the precinct level up, by getting some first-rate political tacticians on his staff and by not talking too much too soon. Once more New York...