Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honored by your fair review of my book. As you say, the new Roman Catholic native bishops often descend from kings (or chiefs) of cruel ancient tribes. It was France and the other powers that freed the numerous slaves of these kings and chiefs. As the example of Ghana already shows, by gaining "independence" too soon, the natives often lose their individual liberties in a new theocratic dictatorial state, where politics is in the hands of the clergy and feudal families. In such a "clerical" state, democracy and human liberties-liberty of expression and of conscience-are bound...
...Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination has issued a directive under the Fair Educational Practices Act ordering Harvard College to stop requesting the photographs. The Office of Admissions has failed to comply with the directive, claiming that the pictures were not used for discrimination...
Assistant Attorney General Samuel H. Gaffer ruled last Dec. 20 that "A request for photographs before the student is admitted . . . is an unfair educational practice under the Fair Educational Practices...
Almost everybody in Baja California shares the boom's excitement. Said prosperous Mexicali Air-conditioning Executive Manuel Garcia Prieto: "My wife and I just took a long-delayed vacation in New York. We saw My Fair Lady and Long Day's Journey into Night and Tosca. We'd planned to stay two weeks, but at the end of the first week I suddenly felt strange. I told my wife: You'll think I'm crazy, but I want to go back to Mexicali. It's hot in the summer and dusty in the winter...
Married. Alan Jay Lerner, 39, Broadway librettist (My Fair Lady, Brigadoon) ; and Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo, Parisian lawyer; he for the third time, she for the second; in Manhattan...