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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most sought-after collections of private papers ever placed on the market. The decision caught everyone by surprise: McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. (5,227 students), successfully purchased the vast array of letters and papers of BeHrand Russell, 95. There is enough of the stuff (150,000 items) to fill dozens of trunks-work sheets of Russell's milestone thought in philosophy and mathematics, his voluminous correspondence with such pen pals as Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Albert Einstein and Ho Chi Minh. Record price...
...week course, for which they are paid $54 each, the police fill out unsigned questionnaires. Thus far, 19 rated the course excellent, 92 very good, 253 good. Only 74 graded it either poor or a waste of time-or refused to fill out the survey form. And even Chief Short admits that he is pleased with the results. By late fall, all 1,400 of Houston's police will, as Short puts it, "have gotten a closer look at the people." Already Sikes has received reports from the city's Negro districts of increased courtesy and assistance...
...rare that non-political news gets lead headlines. Says Ian Menzies, managing editor of the Morning Globe,"Tom (Winship) would fill the whole front page with politics if he could." There remain, to be sure, vestiges of the old home-town paper. Pictures of by-standers comforting the victims of car accidents still get put on page two. Violent headlines are the rule, even for routine items. But the grosser forms of parochialism have been removed...
...expert will find even more frustrating the flat, jargonized writing and impenetrable tables of statistics that fill many of the pieces. But these particular difficulties are revealing. The contributors are talking with each other, not to the general public. This is fine to a point, but the Coleman Report was published two years ago and this is the first comprehensive treatment of its contribution to educational thought. As Kenneth Clark points out in the Review, publicizing the inadequacies of the present system is a key first step in spurring both whites and blacks to the political action that will bring...
...jostles freely and the parade swirls again. A passing van swallows its music splashing choice bits benignly at you so you don't feel left out. "Come on without/ Come on within/ You'll not see nothing like...(grateful to the Great Commercial Prophet holed up in New York, fill in the blanks)...the Mighty Quinn...