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...Specter. It was a chilling display, and its significance reached far beyond the Congo. "Even such a torrent of abuse of my country is of no consequence compared to the specter of racial antagonism and conflict raised in this chamber," said Stevenson. "I personally need no credentials as a spokesman for racial equality. I say that racial hatred, racial strife, has cursed the world for too long. I make no defense of the sins of the white race. But the antidote for white racism is not black racism...
Kelley recovered rapidly and was ready to go home when the doctors decided on a last-minute X ray, a final checkup for safety's sake. The results were astonishing: the bullet seemed to have disappeared. Then another X ray found it-lodged in the right ventricle (lower chamber) of Kelley's heart. Medical annals are full of cases in which wandering bullets have traveled from the chest, say, to such unlikely places as the knee. But the young Maine hunter had set what astounded doctors thought might be something of a record. Having been shot...
...crowd of delegates and officials spilled over into the press section and public galleries; ambassadors stood three-deep around the horseshoe table. Never had the chamber been so packed, and seldom had its mood been so ugly. The U.N. Security Council was debating the Congo...
Likewise preserving all the unities, its three acts bear the subtitles "Pas de Deux," "Pas de Trois," and "Coda." But the work suggests, more than ballet, a piece of polyphonic chamber music in which all the strings of a violin, viola and 'cello are tuned tighter than usual...
...share." Now, no one can agree on what to include in the core, but the concept of should knowledge is not outdated, he insisted. "The various Gen Ed courses still represent different angles of approach to certain common topics. Students compare and mix these angles in conversation. The great 'chamber of sharing' is no longer the lecture hall, but the dining hall, but at least sharing takes place," Finley declared...