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White sat out World War II in an Irish farmhouse, and later settled on Alderney in the Channel Islands. He learned how to sail, and he learned the deaf-blind language so that, year after year, he could entertain members of a deaf-blind society whom he invited to Alderney. In 1957 he revised The Once and Future King, softening a nasty lampoon of his nasty mother (Queen Morgause, the witch...
...world had hardly learned of Martin Luther King's murder in Memphis before speculation began that the civil rights leader had been the victim of a well-planned conspiracy. The rumor mills were lubricated in part by the assiduously cultivated doubts that some still entertain about the killing of John F. Kennedy. In this case, however, the conspiracy theorists could point to the fact that, though the gunman was clearly identified, he remained -for all the far-flung resources of the FBI-mysteriously at large...
...Fleet Earl Mountbatten, of Burma, 67, sailed into Manhattan to fire off a salute to such old friends as Darryl F. Zanuck, Spyros P. Skouras and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. at the Americana Hotel. The earl first fell in with moviefolk back in the 1930s, when they donated movies to entertain the crews on Royal Navy warships, so it was only natural to return the favor by helping out at a fund-raising drive for show business's Variety Clubs International charities. Queen Victoria's great-grandson found Manhattan's haute cuisine smashing good, and said the same...
What self-respecting black academic would entertain thoughts of coming to Harvard upon reading that "Harvard (has been) forced to lower traditional academic requirements to benefit from black assistance?" Upon reading this, his "barometer of white racism" would be running red. Any black's would. The implication of a double-standard, Harvard-styled, smacks of this same racism you attack...
...dorms still stir violent arguments on many campuses, Penn has assigned all such decisions to a ten-student, ten-teacher committee. This group recently extended women's curfews to 1:30 a.m. on weekdays and 2:15 a.m. on weekends, gave men the right to entertain girls in their rooms until 2 a.m. on weekends. Infractions of undergraduate regulations are handled by separate men's and women's courts composed of students. There is also a student-run traffic court and a student board that en forces the campus honor code...