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...demonstrators managed to recapture their flotilla in time, but when the Proteus finally sailed into view, an escort of Royal Navy launches swamped one rowboat and a canoe and chased the others off. The demonstrators wound up in jail, the kind of mild martyrdom they had obviously had in mind. "We called the local police," said one, "to be sure there were enough cells for us." Next day a crowd of 1,000 appeared at Holy Loch waving placards. But the Proteus was on station, and Dunoon welcomed it with a civic reception and a dance. Said Town Clerk Duncan...
...front page article in the New York Times on Sunday, February 19, discussed "the humiliating problem of finding a place to live" which confronts diplomats from newly recognized African nations. According to the United Nations escort who accompanied the diplomats throughout their search, all the Africans expressed shock at racial discrimination "in the living example of democracy." Although many had heard of discrimination in the South, they were not at all prepared to find it in the North...
...Dunster House Sophomores yesterday formed a human chain over Charles River ice to save a Radcliffe sophomore and her escort...
Still worried about the extremists ("Wait till those cops leave"), the moderates plan to escort the Negroes after the police stop, have "400 people we can count on." They can also count on the firm support of an aroused faculty, which is not only doing sentry duty across the campus but is also speaking out loud and clear for reason. When the state legislature introduced a resolution to censure the faculty for its stand last week, one professor snorted: "If they're serious about telling the university what the faculty has a right to say, they can have their...
...Lord Jesus Christ had come back to earth in Scarsdale in time for the Holly Ball, he would not have been allowed to escort a young lady of this parish to that dance." Thus, in probably the most incongruous image of the year, Rector George F. Kempsell Jr. of the Episcopal Church of St. James the Less in the prosperous suburb of Scarsdale, N.Y. admonished his congregation last week. A debutante, due to come out at the seventh annual Holly Ball at the Scarsdale Golf Club, had been told by the "escort subcommittee" that one of the two boys whose...