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...Halberstam accuses the NAACP of neglecting the poverty and squalor of the Negro while turning to fruitless political activity. But national publicity has been the NAACP's way of defending the Negro, and it is not likely to be abandoned. There is no reason why the group should throw away its weapon and fight with a bouquet. The Negro has neither the financial resources nor the access to power necessary to help himself effectively. More important, the NAACP feels that only through community action will the Negro's status be improved. The economic and social system has forced the colored...
Died. Archbishop Grigory, 86, Russian Orthodox Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, who visited the U.S. in 1947 in a fruitless attempt to unite the Russian Orthodox Church in North America with the church in Moscow; in Leningrad...
...Honeymoon. In Christchurch, N.Z., Landlord J. Robinson loudly complained to the local Land Valuation Court that the young couple who had rented a beach cottage from him for their 1938 honeymoon still occupied the place, despite the birth of their four children and the fruitless efforts he had made to oust them...
...play's French title is The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, and it is Trojan Hector's fierce and fruitless effort to make good this claim that constitutes Giraudoux's action. Troy's greatest warrior, Hector (well played by Michael Redgrave), comes home to find his brother Paris home ahead of him, with Helen. Hector is determined to return Helen to Menelaus, King of Sparta, and so avoid war; nor is the assured, shallow, minxlike Helen (amusingly played by Diane Cilento) the obstacle. The real obstacles are Troy's idealists, who particularly idealize...
Yesterday's opening testimony at the trial of Leon J. Kamin '49 followed a fruitless first day which ended in a mistrial and a waiver by Kamin of his right to a trial by jury. The mistrial was caused by loud applause for Senator Joseph R. McCarthy...