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...will apparently be withheld until Boston comes up with a satisfactory plan to comply with the State Racial Imbalance Law. The School Committee's intransigence in racial matters has also delayed the building of a new English High School for over three years; the only available site has been in Roxbury. The Committee has yet to spend a cent of the $29 million bond issue, floated in 1963, for fear of disturbing the racial status...
...Moles's opaque French and has rewritten most of Moles's numerical example so that they are at least internally consistent and comprehensible, if not worth the trouble in the first place. But his performance too is less than ideal. The top of page 200 is as obscure in English as the original was in French again "modulated transmission of coded impulses" is a ludicrous, if more grammatical, transformation of PCM, of "pulse-code-modulation" transmission...
...apartments on the city's edge. An Italian influence is felt at Bucharest's Continental Bar, where "Miss Dyna Mit" slithers through a tassel-tossing version of Amore Scusami. The entrance price of 10 lei ($1.60) discourages most Rumanians, but the hordes of Japanese and German, English and French businessmen who haunt Bucharest year round take up the slack. The real life of the city is best seen on a winter morning at 5:30 when the first trolleys grind across the frozen tracks and queues of workers shuffle aboard, carrying packets of bread and sausage, to head...
Both of these programs are heavily dependent on the cooperation and support of the departments. Only a few teaching fellows have appointments in either History and Lit or Social Studies. Most tutors in the programs are affiliated with the English, History or Government departments. If the History Department should refuse to provide a sufficient number of tutors, History and Lit would founder. Similarly, if the Government Department should put pressure on teaching fellows not to participate, Social Studies would be seriously hurt...
Guiness portrays a combination hero's-brother-in-law-secret-policeman-movie-narrator, who, at the outset, is confronted with Rita Tushingham as an orphaned Russian peasant girl. Miss Tushingham has wisely made a habit of playing lasses of English extraction, but by the mere application of a little makeup and a babushka she become as Russian as Lithuania...