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Harvard may have trouble finding another fifteen for the second team, which is scheduled to begin play...

Author: By Susan M. Rogers, | Title: Crimson Ruggers to Battle Clever Indians Today | 10/26/1963 | See Source »

...dispatching a couple of Mirage VIs to drop 60-kiloton bombs on a red town of equivalent size. Meanwhile, back at the battlefield, the blues sprayed 15 tactical nuclear weapons on the reds in an area ten miles long and ten miles wide. More puffs of smoke aux champignons. Fifteen minutes passed, and the blues advanced in tanks and on foot. France won. Among army strategists, felicitations all around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Games with Nuclear Trimmings | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

There is no escaping the fact that de facto segregation exists in the Boston public school system. The presence of sixteen schools--fifteen elementary and one junior high--with overwhelmingly Negro enrollments refuses the School Committee's claim that there is no segragation. There can also be no doubt that students in these sixteen schools receive a poorer education than do other students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston's Schools | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

...Fifteen rabbits made it safely on a 500-mile Jeep trip from Rio to Barra, Bahia, with two corpsmen last month. The volunteers will do some demonstration rabbit-raising, hoping to move on to rabbit cooperative from there. A Peace Corps couple a Anglical, Bahia have a veritable "two-year plan": illiteracy programs, ceramics industry, youth clubs, a library, a vegetable garden, a health education class, model furniture, privies, water filters, and small dams. The couple, and most of the "new wave," call themselves "community developers...

Author: By Jonathan D. Trobe, | Title: Peace Corps in Brazil: Lesson from Failure | 10/23/1963 | See Source »

There was just one time that I thought he might crack in jail: At breakfast one morning, one of the cops poured hot coffee over a fifteen year old girl who was in jail her seventeenth time for the Movement, and in the moment of her scream, Knight started forward. He checked himself though, gave the cop a you'll-never-touch-me smile, and turned his anger to brushing the coffee from the girl's hair and clothing. He had gone to jail understanding what the struggle demanded, and, strain though it was, that's how he stayed...

Author: By Peter Delissovoy, | Title: The Failure in Albany, Georgia | 10/22/1963 | See Source »

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