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...effort at the Democratic nomination, in 1952, quickly collapsed because of his unshakable racial attitudes. Russell remained in the U.S. Senate for 38 years. There he alternated between outdated parochialism and respected service in the national interest. When he died at 73 last week of the complications of chronic lung disease, the Senate's ranking member and president pro tem was remembered for what he had accomplished-and by some for what he might better have left undone...
...fact that Duvalier has finally arranged for a successor after 13 years of absolute rule suggests that he may be succumbing to chronic heart disease and diabetes. There were rumors in Port-au-Prince, in fact, that his doctors had ordered him to quit as President. There was one small problem, but Haiti's obedient National Assembly last week overcame it by voting unanimously to lower the constitutional minimum age for a President from 40 to 20 and giving Papa Doc the legal power to name his successor. For good measure, the government decreed that Jean-Claude is really...
...students still say-"The Indian will never fight, only work." "The Indian is basically happy because he knows nothing better." "Races bred in cold places are more volatile than those bred in low hot places. Coupled with chronic malnutrition, this produces in the Indian an almost complete acceptance and passivity." This deep racism is almost totally unconscious, probably because the whites are somewhat schizophrenic about it, telling you of their Indian blood and erecting statues to legendary Mayan heroes. If the guerrillas have not totally eradicated this racism, it will make forming a rural base almost impossible...
...County, Md., Comstock and his colleagues made an incidental but fascinating discovery. Regular churchgoing, and the clean living that often goes with it, appear to help people avoid a whole bagful of dire ailments and disasters. Among them: heart disease, cirrhosis of the liver, tuberculosis, cancer of the cervix, chronic bronchitis, fatal one-car accidents and suicides...
...dispensed through savings and loan associations. Thanks to the lower payments, many more families should be able to qualify as home buyers. The $85 million, however, will be enough for only 70,000 of the 18 million U.S. families that the Bank Board seeks to aid; such shortfalls are chronic in housing subsidy programs...