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...recent months, Bunche's 200-lb. frame was racked by a succession of debilitating illnesses. Nearly blind, he suffered from heart disease, kidney malfunction and diabetes. Last week President Nixon eulogized Bunche as a man who "never relented in his persistence to advance the cause of brotherhood and cooperation among men and nations." Now the U.N., which has seldom seemed so ineffective, has a double problem: to find a replacement for the retiring Thant and to fill the void left by the man whom the Secretary-General called "the most effective and best-known of international civil servants...
Yalies, noted Harvard philosopher George Santayana in 1892, "are like passengers in a ship or fellow countrymen abroad; their sense of common interests and common emotions overwhelms all latent antiphathies. They live in a sort of primitive brotherhood, with a ready enthusiasm for every good or bad project, and a contagious good-humor...
Women at Yale reaffirms Santayana's observations. Emerging from this persistent "brotherhood", it examines recent changes in Yale's psyche caused by coeducation. The book is a community analysis, the story of Yale's transformation, which relates its findings to both individual relationships and dominant American social trends...
Partially because violence is a threat instant brotherhood is hard to attain, particularly during the first months of integration. As school opened in Austin, Texas, this fall, anti-black
President Charles H. Pillard of the 950,000 member International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers said, "We are going to do everything legally possible to have these contracts negotiated under the collective bargaining system honored one way or another...