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...present furor notwithstanding, Jim Curry has indicated that he too fits the Crimson split end mold. Curry was selected Exeter Academy's "athlete of the decade" for his prowess in basketball, baseball, and football. At Harvard, he quickly established himself as a player to watch for the future. His speed was unmatched and his moves were a series of fluid sprints and sharp breaks...
...until June 27, 1899, that the S.S. Nippon Maru reached San Francisco, carrying, among other things, eleven Japanese stowaways. Two were found drowned, and infected by the plague. Early in 1900 a Chinese immigrant, found dead, was also shown to have had plague. The resulting political furor was reminiscent of the Middle Ages, with the Governor of California insisting that there was no problem and federal authorities demanding stern measures for quarantine, isolation, disinfection and rat extermination. It took almost ten years of squabbling and litigation before all plague-carrying rats were destroyed and the disease suppressed. The last...
Behind the furor in Chicago is a combustible mix of race and economics that has left the city, like many other American cities, divided into separate black and white enclaves. A few blacks move in, the whites begin to panic, and within several years the white neighborhood has turned completely black. "Blockbusters" take advantage of the turnover by buying up houses cheaply from departing whites and reselling them at high prices to arriving blacks...
Kenya's furor apparently forced Amin to back down last February, just as he retreated a bit last week, proclaiming that "Kenyans are the greatest friends of Uganda." However, if Amin were to decide to attack, he could be great trouble for his "friends." His armed forces have more than twice the manpower of the Kenyans' and are vastly superior in artillery and tanks. Even though the Israeli commandos destroyed one-third of the Soviet-equipped Ugandan air force at Entebbe, Amin still retains almost a 3-to-l edge in combat aircraft. Western experts, however, question...
...were several other importaat political expressions and acts that Heymann examines. Pound's radio broadcasts from Italy during the war, his reputed attempt to leave Italy on the last American diplomatic train out of the country, his trial for treason and the issue of his insanity, and finally the furor over the award to Pound of prizes for his poetry. Of these four problems, Heymann's State Department documents bring new light to three...