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When he learned a fortnight ago that his university privileges were to be withdrawn, Halton, who holds doctorates in philosophy and civil law from Oxford, took to his pulpit to defend his stands. "It simply isn't polite to have convictions in academic circles today," he said, "sweet reasonableness and a curious kind of fuzzy sportsmanship have conditioned us to believe that truth necessarily lies in the middle. I shall continue to speak in defense of the central issues of Catholic doctrine and discipline, the central postulates of faith and reason in an academic context...
...Fortnight ago U.S. Treasury agents arrested George and two other men in Boston, then sped to Worthington to confiscate a complete counterfeiting setup in Humphrey's cellar, including $5,500 in inexpertly printed $10 and $20 bills, as well as negatives and plates for making Canadian currency and American Telephone and Telegraph Co. stock certificates...
Seven Zulus died that night a fortnight ago, but on the following afternoon when the Basutos, protected by a police guard, marched past the Zulu stronghold on the way back from burying one of their dead heroes, the Zulus struck back. Streaming behind a shower of stones from their government-built hostel gates with cries of "Idedele, idedele!" (Get out of the way!), they swarmed through the police lines; the police opened fire on the Zulus with pistols and Sten guns...
EVER since peacetime foreign aid began, one of its stated objectives has been to promote private free enterprise abroad. But, until a fortnight ago, the promotion of free enterprise got comparatively little public attention. Then outgoing International Cooperation Administrator John Baker Hollister issued a memo to overseas staffers notifying them that henceforth the U.S. "will normally not be prepared to finance publicly owned industrial and extractive enterprises." Lower-level career people in the State Department promptly planted stories in the metropolitan press accusing Hollister of distorting State Department policy, of trying to cram free enterprise down the throats of foreign...
...showed its power this year when the state legislature passed a law under which any school district that integrates without first holding a local referendum loses its share of state school funds. With that law on the books, no more white schools have opened doors to Negroes. But a fortnight ago a federal district judge directed the city of Dallas to start integrating its schools next semester regardless of state laws...