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Last week, winding up a three-month-long forum on what to do about the Appia, Rome's Giornale d'ltalia decided that public opinion is so diverse "as to embarrass anyone who wants to draw active and positive conclusions." Whizzing along the highroad of a new 20th century Renaissance in their motor scooters and Alfa Romeos, the great mass of Italians seemed quite content to let the old Via Appia find its own way into the future as it had out of the past. "We too are making history," said one Roman, "and who knows-maybe...
...providing the Reds a tremendous propaganda device." At Duke University, one debater reported that he had received a letter from his Congressman. "I certainly hope," warned Representative Edward Robeson, "that you will not undertake to debate the positive position of this subject, as quotations from your statements may embarrass you for the rest of your life...
...Vancouver Island's exclusive Shawnigan Lake School for boys (TIME, Oct. 4), it seemed doubtful that she would ever return to Canada. According to Dorothy, who is one-eighth Negro, Shawnigan Lake's Headmaster G. P. Kaye had asked her to leave rather than embarrass the school by remaining as a faculty wife. John Hewitt joined his wife in Jamaica, and sent a letter of resignation to Kaye...
...said one stable owner as he pointed to Lampass, a Russian two-year-old. "Doesn't he look like a great Graditz stallion with the head of a Russian plow horse?" Everywhere, observant horsemen could see signs of fine bloodlines fouled by careless breeding. As if to embarrass the Russians still further, a Czech horse romped off with the grand prize...
...certificate. Nor is the perfunctory loyalty check on those who complete the form, mostly conducted in the files of the Defense Department, likely to reveal any damaging evidence about such a person's political associations. If the purpose of the certificate is to uncover memberships that might embarrass the military in the future, the ROTC unit need only post a list of tainted organizations with a request that any student who has belonged to one fill out a form stating the circumstances under which he joined. It would eliminate the feeling attending loyalty oaths, that the organization requiring the oath...