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Flood from the South. South Tyrol's 200,000 German-speaking people, subjects of the House of Habsburg for 555 years, never cottoned to the idea that they were Italian. At the end of World War II, the late Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi* agreed with Austrian Foreign Minister Karl Gruber to give the region autonomy within the Italian Republic, to allow German in the schools and in government offices, if the Austrians would consider the issue closed...
...priority has been given to doing something about the country's 12 million refugees who fled India to end up jobless in wretched slums. Ayub ordered new housing projects; with a stroke of the pen his Rehabilitation Minister gave permanent title to 6,600,000 acres in the Punjab to 1,400,000 refugees. The new program cuts two ways. Under the law, the refugees can lay claim to land with the same value as that which they left behind. Now faced with the threat of prison for filing false claims, 5,500 refugees have decided to withdraw...
This year, thanks largely to Robert Lee Pettit, 26, St. Louis made a ruin of the National Basketball Association's Western Division, clinched the title three weeks ago. Pettit holds a long lead in the individual scoring race, at week's end had scored 1,886 points, was averaging 29 a game, needed only a trifling 17 in each of the remaining seven regular season games to smash the alltime single season scoring record of 2,001 set last year by Detroit's George Yardley...
...word prayer an encroachment on the right to religious freedom? Recited in unison by schoolchildren, the prayer begins each school day in the suburban Long Island school district of Herricks. Last week five property owners in the district brought suit in the New York State Supreme Court to end the practice, waited for a ruling later this month...
Toward the tag end of winter, when the Oxford or Cambridge undergraduate has been sewn into the hair shirt of academic strictures for dismal months, he begins to itch. As Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford or Cambridge, circa 1360, according to tradition) wrote about the approach of spring, "thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages." Last week at both universities, students were dreamily reviewing intricate plans for a modern form of the pilgrimage -the scholarly expedition. Some 20 such safaris-a record-breaking number-will set out from Oxbridge this June. They range from a one-undergraduate orchid hunt in Venezuela...