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...represent the American government and can work in places where political problems are delicate. This year two teachers are going to Bechuanaland; at least four will be teaching refugees from Mozambique and Rhodesia. Draft boards, however, grant deferment to V.T.A. as well as Peace Corps members; only two of fifteen members this year have been refused. V.T.A. teachers are presently training by studying Swahili and teaching English to Puerto Ricans in Boston's South...
...marks the score: "At the Armistice in November 1918, just under eight hundred [in the battalion] had been killed in action, including thirty-two officers, which is in fact almost exactly the combat strength of an infantry battalion. And of course, there were the wounded, not less than another fifteen hundred...
...Fifteen Crimson swimmers, competing today in the Eastern Seaboard Championships at Annapolis, will not bring any team honors to Harvard, but four or five individual performers should make strong showings...
...mark indicates; they gave Penn and Princeton a rough time, and two weeks ago shellacked a fine Columbia team, 88 to 69. Yale has a very well-balanced quintet, with four players averaging in double figures. The Elis shouldn't have much trouble defeating the Crimson by ten or fifteen points...
Second, the report claims that the race issue will become "politically neutral" with the next ten to fifteen years, allowing Republicans to attack the South's old rural and new urban economic problems: "As the race issue recedes as a political issue, economic questions will come to the forefront, and will have as much weight with the lower income whites as it will with the colored electorate." Even if race does cease to be a political issue, (which seems unlikely, since it has remained an issue in the "emancipated" North for a century) Negroes identified overwhelmingly with the Democratic Party...