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...University's arguments against off-campus living and the switching of Houses are roughly the same: both would endanger the House system as presently constituted. Switching of Houses would probably lead to a "first choice" House and a "reject" House. The pockets of various types of activists would deepen, while the valued, if minimal, diversity that currently prevails would be undermined. It would also create Administrative problems of serious proportions...
...smooth things over. "We are confident," said Wilkins, "that regardless of minor irritations, we will continue to have the sincere cooperation on basic issues of dedicated labor leaders like Walter Reuther." But despite Wilkins' words, the hostility between the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the N.A.A.C.P. is likely to deepen, especially after the elections...
Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, edited by Frederick A. Pottle and Charles H. Bennett. This latest-to-be-edited volume of Boswell's journal cannot deepen the portrait of Johnson, but Bozzy's entertaining chatter continues delightfully as he describes the doctor, a great bag of prejudice and conversation set atop a tiny horse, clambering over the wet Scottish islands...
Other Commonwealth leaders declared that Britain's realignment with Europe and away from her Afro-Asian partners will only deepen the chasm that divides the underdeveloped southern nations and the affluent Northern Hemisphere. Said Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan: "You cannot expect friendly coexistence between those countries that are deliberately kept backward and the ones that are bulging with wealth." Black Africa's "uncommitted" Commonwealth members, notably Tanganyika and Nigeria, stoutly rejected Europe's offer of "associate membership" in the Common Market on the theory that this would tie their policies to Western Europe, NATO...
...yards of picture spreads about the birthdays of the children, the social affairs of the First Lady, the horsemanship of a sister, the recreational habits of the Attorney General's family, feed the public's desire to know all about the White House inhabitants. Everything goes to deepen the cult...