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Trivia & Fluffs. As always, the ubiquitous TV reporters caught some memorable glimpses: the unchivalrous disinterest of newspaper-reading delegates on ladies' day; NBC's pickup of the small but illuminating drama of Adlai Stevenson's reception for Mrs. Roosevelt; Bess Truman, behind dark glasses, nudging Harry in the ribs for speaking out of turn; bottle-bald Sam Rayburn (who did not submit to a dulling topsoil application of orange powder this time, as he did the last) threatening to shoot an admonishing finger right through the little glass screens in U.S. living rooms; the grin spreading across...
...percent who contributed last year was only $4.44. The problem goes deeper too than mere technical details, such as the date or duration of the drive. Fall drives, predated checks, and IBM machines may help, but efficiency--laudable as it is--is no answer to student disinterest. Instead of searching for a few missing pieces, the Council will have to examine the whole pattern of the College's single charity drive...
...variety in their background, income, jobs, accent and future, there is a common feeling threading through the different levels of French youth. It is some mixture of disorientation, disgust, disinterest, disappointment and dis enchantment, all resulting in me fiance - a distrust for the powers that be. There is, lying deep down below the soil, a seed of revolt. It may never burst into violent revolution...
Pretexts to Stay. Talking to friends, Churchill has explained that he has stayed on largely in hopes of a cosmic conference, which would enable him to climax his career as a peacemaker. But Eisenhower's disinterest, and Malenkov's fall, have made such a parley increasingly unlikely. The Yalta documents are not calculated to increase U.S. desire for more of such personal diplomacy...
...graduate level is the University of Tennessee, where few students are "violently opposed to desegregation in any way." Students showed last spring "to the booming majority of four to one" that they favor the Supreme Court's ruling. Again, the editor urges slow integration in the face of the disinterest of most students. "Perhaps," he says, "this is just the lull before the storm...