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Because of the need for forthright discussion of the problems that concern so much of James Baldwin's writing. I would appreciate the opportunity to to Paul Cowan's rejoinder to my letter in the CRIMSON of December...
...Such forthright exchanges take place daily for English-speaking newsmen covering the Roman Catholic Church's Ecumenical Council in Rome. The reporters gather in a building just around the corner from St. Peter's, where, in response to questions, a panel of U.S. bishops and church authorities sheds what light it can on the council's terse and generally uninformative news bulletins...
Died. Frederick Louis Maytag II, 51, president since 1940 of the $107 million-a-year Maytag Co., U.S. producer of laundry machines, the founder's forthright flying and skindiving grandson, who at 29 inherited a feudal Midwestern firm, modernized and expanded it tenfold by profit-sharing management and honest craftsmanship that shunned built-in obsolescence; of cancer; in Newton, Iowa...
...Appeal waited until 1954 to endorse Kefauver, then changed its mind and opposed him two years ago. The Appeal does not lack for courage. Circulating in an area preponderantly segregationist, it nevertheless printed an editorial of its own on the Mississippi riots that was fully as forthright as the chain editorial spun out of Washington...
...want him to carry on any further in a struggle that he and Mississippi were bound to lose. In terms of practical politics, Barnett could quit well ahead. From across the Tennessee border, the Memphis Commercial Appeal offered him some advice: "Mississippi's government has been independent and forthright in a regrettable situation. But is it worth it if it puts a headstone over...