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...gain: the private organization, the University, and the community. The Patriots, without an acceptable stadium, might sell out to other cities. There have been several offers made recently. Harvard could collect about $200,000 per year, plus improvements on the Stadium. For Boston, professional football is both an economic boon and a promoter. Cities scrape for a franchise during a league expansion...
...fully as possible with a people who have endured 300 years of systematic dehumanization with only occasional lapses into the kind of subhuman behavior we seem to be getting almost regularly from our fellow whites. We may well find that James Baldwin is right-that integration will prove the boon of the white more than the Negro...
...hotel room is an unaccustomed freedom, and so is walking on park lawns. A general from inflation-plagued Brazil was pleased that "during the five weeks I was in New York the prices stayed the same." The attention given a family traveling with children is a boon. "You could take 50 restaurants in London," says one Englishman, "and not find half a dozen with high chairs." Almost to a man, visitors are irked by the difficulty in buying that tourists' essential, postage stamps. Where they find them in commercial machines, it strikes them as almost immoral that a quarter...
...Youth Cult misleads them into thinking that license is freedom, that untutored whims are tastes, and that ever-jittering motions are deeds. Since it is the specific problem and task of middle-agers to induct the promising young into the society of civilized men, it might be a boon to all generations to begin by debunking the stultifying Youth Cult...
...Institute, the U.S. Government's broadcasting system in West Berlin, and private organizations as diverse as the Anchorage, Alaska, League of Women Voters and the Columbia Broadcasting System. The American Automobile Association is distributing Ode to the Road (Sept. 10) to its nationwide membership. A student found a boon in What (If Anything) to Expect from Today's Philosophers (Jan. 7). "More than anything else," he wrote us, "those two pages helped to wrap up a semester's course in modern philosophy-and just in time for the final exam." Protestant Theologian Henry P. Van Dusen deemed...