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Martin Kilson, assistant professor of Government, and E. U. Essien-Udom, author of the famous Black Nationalism (written at Chicago under Edward C. Banfield) were anticipating, based on their knowledge of Negro lower class culture and the Muslim phenomenon, that the ghettoes, would soon erupt into riot. "What's going to stop them?" Epps would ask. "Negroes like you," was their reply...
...representatives. After murdering them, they threw the bodies from the fourth-floor windows. The situation in Nanking is exceedingly critical. Already from cities in the neighborhood of Nanking, including Shanghai, the reactionary workers are on the march to Nanking. Bloody clashes on an even larger scale are about to erupt...
When a tooth growing out from its bud in the jawbone gets trapped-either in the bone itself or between other teeth-dentists say that it is "impacted." The problem occurs most often with the four so-called wisdom teeth, or third molars, which generally erupt around the end of adolescence. And the catalogue of troubles that have been traced to impacted wisdom teeth is virtually endless. At one time or another, New York University's Dr. Irving Salman told the Greater New York Dental Meeting last week, they have been accused of causing everything from facial deformity...
...crises are evident in the paucity of results. In Watts, the high-tension Negro section of Los Angeles that erupted in fierce rioting a year and a half ago, measurable progress is almost impossible to discern. Local officials have done almost nothing, and the federal program has bogged down in red tape. Although there are job-training classes in Watts, the dropout rate is almost 50%. Small wonder. The curriculum, which includes such subjects as termite control and motorcycle repair, scarcely seems tailored to the Watts job market. Last summer, when it was feared that Watts would erupt again, federal...
...Kingman Brewster Jr. slipped a mild criticism of Harvard's admission policies into an article in the Yale Alumni Magazine, the New York Times promptly blew the "controversy" out of all proportion by splattering it onto the front page. But even though no one expects a blood feud to erupt between the two institutions over the issue, it should still be noted that Brewster hasn't got much of an argument...