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...Fortress Face. Across the U.S., the trend is against newspapers citing the race of suspects unless the crime is racially motivated (Black Panthers assaulting whites, for example). But the editor of the News, Martin Hayden, argues that most crimes are committed by "underprivileged, undereducated and deprived youngsters from the slum ghetto." Pointing that out, he contends, may persuade whites to support programs to help black youth and cause "reasonable black people to realize that there is a racial aspect to the current crime problem...
Simultaneously, Perkins was trying to cool things off. He suspended regular classes and urged students and faculty to discuss the crisis. Behind the scenes, the administration explained why it had given in to the blacks. "These were frightened and paranoid people in a fortress on this campus," one university official told the faculty. "A delay [in an agreement] would have meant bloodshed and death. The university can survive, even through concessions obtained by coercion and force, but not through murder." By Wednesday noon, the faculty was ready to reconsider its decision. In a complete reversal of the original ballot...
...Saturday dance, the committee had hired an entire castle in Ipswich. The fortress consisted of a huge ballroom on the ground floor, and upper stories which contained a myriad of considerably smaller suites for the use of Jubilee's patrons. The committee hired about 30 buses and thoughtfully provided free mixer to mitigate the annoyance of a rather long ride. The bus drivers, however, were considerably less amused and once at the destination they emulated a good number of their passengers and many became totally inebriated. The bus company, which shall remain unnamed here, sent out another busload of more...
Exercise of Independence. Trudeau's decision does not mean that he plans a retreat to Fortress Canada. Rather it reflects Canada's uncertainty over how it may contribute to collective security while retaining a capacity for independence in the shadow of the U.S. Trudeau is determined to exercise that independence, though he is well aware of its limitations. "Obviously," he recently remarked, "we couldn't under any circumstances have a foreign policy that was completely contrary to the interests of the United States. I just don't think they would allow...
...super soldiers who could have won World War II during a weekend pass. Major Burton is head of a British mission behind enemy lines; Lieut. Eastwood is his Yank second-in-command. Their assignment is to rescue an American general who has got himself imprisoned in a German army fortress high in the Alps. There are two inevitable complications: 1) a dirty turncoat is methodically bumping off the members of the mission, and 2) one of those guys in uniform turns out to be a girl (Mary Ure). She is a sort of Green Berette, a combination of Mata Hari...