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...Negro, for example, the probability of mixed matings works out at 9 per 1,000. Dr. Stuckert admits that this figure cannot be exact, but he says it agrees with many sociological studies. His other figures (e.g., immigration and natural increase of Negroes and whites) are much firmer...
FRANCE The Providential Man Out of the kaleidoscopic confusion of events in France emerged two arresting facts. In his first seven days in power Charles de Gaulle had managed to give his country firmer government than it had known in the preceding seven years. And in the process the stiff old soldier from Colombey-les-Deux Eglises had displayed precisely the two qualities his critics insisted that he lacked-a talent for conciliation and a mastery of political maneuver worthy of a Talleyrand or a Tammany sachem...
Problems & Precedent. .Talmadge's stem-winding oratory was deflated by Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, whose Middle Eastern trip last month made him a firmer advocate of Eisenhower foreign policy. "If one wishes to engage in finding very little blisters on the trunk of the great oak tree," said Democrat Humphrey, "it is possible to make it appear that the oak is almost ready to collapse, or that it never should have been a tree in the first place. But if one considers the totality of the program and does not concentrate on a little error here...
...called the election. Aramburu quietly tightened support for the reforms among his military backers. His Army Minister, Arturo Ossorio Arana, summoned key military men and cited constitutional history to prove that firmer checks are needed on the executive branch. Under the present constitution, Ossorio Arana pointed out the President can in effect legislate by decree during the seven months of the year when Congress is adjourned. He can also remove elected provincial governors and appoint interventors in their place-a power often abused in the past...
...Student Council's NSA committee, is satisfied with Harvard's showing, but he doubts that the petition will have any real effect. A similar petition in 1952 helped stop a similar segregation drive, but De-Bayle pointed out that the current prime minister, Dirk Strijdom, has a firmer apartheid policy than his predecessor, and cares less for world opinion...