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...dominated every utterance during the week. To the graduating class of mostly Negro Howard University, the President pointed out that even though Negroes are winning the legal battle for equality, Negro poverty remains worse than white poverty. He talked about the psychological scars left on young Negroes, the devastating breakdown in Negro family life, the lack of education. He cited figures to show that the gulf between whites and Negroes is actually widening rather than closing, despite the legal breakthrough...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Bob Newhart appears as a scientist whose electronic computer has a nervous breakdown. Color...
...Asia, India can rightfully claim to be the world's largest democracy-although it is in effect a one-party state, so dominant is the ruling Congress Party. But trying to impose a classic two-party system on the welter of Indian politics could only lead to total breakdown. Besides, other parties do freely exist, and within itself the Congress Party contains and balances off so many shades of opinion and interests that it is virtually a coalition government. One of the most serious dangers to Indian democracy is corruption in the civil service, essentially a symptom of economic...
...Total war dead (excluding the Civil War): 598,585. The breakdown: Revolutionary War, 4,435; War of 1812, 2,260; Mexican War, 13,283; Spanish-American War, 2,446; World War I, 116,516; World War II, 405,399; Korean...
...attainment who is facing his psychological climacteric. Maxwell Gordon Amberley is a career Foreign Service officer and Old Far Eastern hand. While he was serving in Japan, his wife died and he became a convert to Zen Buddhism: such are the personal roots of his spiritual crisis and subsequent breakdown. But the personal story of Amberley is far overshadowed by the public story of the American official, for as the action starts, Amberley is named U.S. Ambassador to South Viet...