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...special way; she said yes-and in English. Promptly Fuller-Sandys called on her gnarled father, an aged and respected laborer on the place. Naturally. Fuller-Sandys handed over a bride price ($100); then Fuller-Sandys slipped a diamond engagement ring on Margaret's finger. It was a brave step in white-ruled Southern Rhodesia. Immediately the government fired Fuller-Sandys as an adviser in the Native Affairs Department, curtly explaining: "You cannot administer Africans and sleep with them." Of 48 white friends Fuller-Sandys invited to the wedding last week, 34 sent their regrets. The beaming bride, carrying...
...hopeless pursuit of the impossible? In Binghamton, Mayor John J. Burns did not think so: "This taught all of us a lesson. He was scorned here. I think now we're all sorry he was. Maybe the next time someone wants to picket the courthouse, we will tolerate brave people...
...grounds. Already he has met more heads of state than most people can name. Only recently, he and Caroline were trundled out in their night clothes to say hello to the King of Morocco before a state dinner. Caro line curtsied and John Jr. shook hands. Indeed, if some brave barber were to trim his Prince Charles hairdo, John F. Kennedy Jr. would look like quite a little...
...Vassar girl becomes very attached to a meter-reader and undertakes his education (he's really very bright); Farr's mistress proves that she has a heart of gold. Finally, after two years--it seems longer to the reader--they are all whisked off to Australia, where a brave new world is forming, free from evils of the last...
Second, the insinuation that "student riots in the 'home of the brave' are incomparable to the purposeful demonstrations of far-off lands" simply ignores the facts. What, we ask, is more purposeful: a group of Latin Americans "continually agitating in front of Batista's sumptuous palace" or 4,000 clean-cut Harvard students shouting as one man: "Latin si, Pusey no"? And which is more effective; students vaguely "proclaiming their political ideals" in scattered cities or 1600 Harvard men concentrated on Cambridge making a specific demand: Pogo for President...