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...electors of PBK refused to couch the administration of honor in Mr. Chester's Procrustean bad. Having been present at the June elections in 1963, '64, and '65, I can vouch that the great majority of these apparent reversals favored a heterogeneity of interests, favored signs of intellectual flare and excitement, over that massive but dull competence which gets its own reward in grades, grades, and more grades...
...Middle East, where hates flare and die with the course of the sun, there is no letup in the feud between Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who leads the Arab world's revolutionary camp, and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, who leads the conservative forces...
...Live. Supernovae are the most violent of a group of three exploding stars whose two other members -novae and dwarf novae-periodically flare up for a short time and then return to their original state. By contrast, a supernova is never the same again...
These have caused their own problems: the PBH volunteers are constantly worried about both the people in the projects and the local politicians; the Ed School fears a possible flare-up in the old style and constantly attempts to avoid arousing political memories; and some observers expect conflict between Harvard doctors and the Cambridge-rooted doctors in the City hospital. It is possible, though hardly likely, that these tensions will doom the projects that created them. The conflicts seem to be tolerated. The Phillips Brooks House program in the Roosevelt Tower Housing project, for example, has received little but praise...
Frustration has spawned violence. Negro youths last year burned the sheriff's substation nearest Marin City, hailed rocks and gasoline bombs on patrolling deputies. In a flare-up this month, several buildings were set ablaze and responding firemen pelted with rocks. During a meeting at which Negroes voiced their grievances, County Administrator Alan Bruce, a white man, declared: "Whitey is beginning to understand why he is hated so much...