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Participants will spend July working on citrus farms at the Isle of Youth, a former prison island now a cane field run by the Cuban Young Communist League. During August they will tour Cuba. "The program is designed to build support for the Cuban revolution on American campuses," Nufeld stated. He added that "Cubans are still afraid of an invasion by the United States, and seeing these students working with them will be very encouraging...
Swinging with the Smart. The technicians practice Wall Street's most ar cane - some are unkind enough to say inane - art. In deciding whether to buy or sell a stock, the purists among them profess to care less about such fundamentals as a company's assets, its earnings, its management or even what it does. Instead, the chartists divine the fu ture of a stock by poring over a dis play of its past performance. The zigs and zags may ignore the fundamental "facts," but more important, technicians argue, the charts reflect what the mar ket knows...
DIFFERENT sorts of problems present themselves when the blind student reaches college. David, only a freshman, is still in the process of adjusting to University life. Living in Wigglesworth, right in the Yard, he finds no difficulty in getting around with a cane, which he claims is both simpler and easier than a seeing eye dog. A prospective English major, David so far has been able to obtain most of the books he needs in Braille, and uses only one reader (a person who reads to a blind student) a week. He also makes use of Talking Books--a program...
...first crucial tests when he reached Cambridge was learning to cross a street alone. Back home in Scarsdale everybody drove. "I didn't know how to use a cane," he recalled. "I used to wave it over my head, utter a few prayers, and run." He made one attempt to get a seeing eye dog, but gave it up when Helen (his dog) objected vocally to Professor Alfred's rendition of Beowulf in old English...
...sighted person can Braille a text, without knowledge of Braille. A new process has been developed, by which fifty copies of a Braille page can be made at once, facilitating the printing of Braille books. And then there are the inventions of the future, such as the electronic cane. But these are all external crutches, so to speak; what the blind need more desperately than special treatment is acceptance as normal individuals. For example, Hal once wrote a grievance song for the blind, which reveals just one of the many injustices with which they are confronted. The song is entitled...