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...demonstration against a bi-racial group of visitors to the campus. In Tuskegee, Ala., public schools that had closed rather than integrate are now open again on an integrated basis. The new federal aid-to-education bill will exert considerable influence by withholding aid from schools that cannot furnish acceptable plans for integration. In order to continue receiving aid, the U.S. Office of Education announced last week, school districts will have to desegregate at least four grades for the school year beginning in September, and all twelve grades by the 1967-68 term. Whether anything approaching true integration will...
...operators of the Cambridge version, to be called "La Discotheque Nicole," promise to furnish "a place where people can dance and relax at the same time." They hope to open by the middle of May in the basement of the Club Henri IV, a French restaurant on Winthrop...
...Administration at Harvard has recognized that a "college education" need not be limited officially to four years in the classroom-that a year away from academics may furnish an opportunity for intellectual and emotional growth, "development of character and motivation." Under the present law, however, it has been unable to grant draft exempt status to students taking a leave of absence. Senior tutors may "clarify" the student's status in a letter or phone calls to the local draft board. But as the conscription of several students revealed last year, clarification does not constitute deferment...
Outlining a comprehensive traffic program for Cambridge, Rudolph wrote the City Council: "This is what we need. If the city is not prepared to furnish this we can only 'peck away' at the problem instead of solving it. This 'pecking' can be done without a traffic department and without wasting any further money for personnel who are hamstrung in their efforts...
Although they sent home a fortune in furs, the colonists were repaid largely with official indifference and hostility. "It is for traders to traffic where they please," pronounced the Empress Catherine. "I will furnish no men, ships, or money." Not until 1810, nearly 70 years after Russian eyes first beheld America, did a ship from the imperial navy enter New Archangel harbor, and then only with mischief in mind. Its captain, one Vasilii Golovnin, coveted the lucrative colony, which was in the hands of businessmen. In time, the navy pulled its rank and took control. Aleksandr Baranov, resident manager...