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...gave him a future hope. Now the South Africa where Rhodes made his fortune seeks to deny the blacks even a future claim to equality. To the north, in the lands named for Rhodes, South Africa's course is viewed with foreboding, but Rhodesia's own halfway house is an anxious place. The tendency among the frightened and the angry is to find ingenious definitions of "civilized" to exclude as many blacks as possible. Last month Southern Rhodesia's whites erupted in angry debate after a government commission proposed that anybody, white or black, was entitled...
...City's sinners to come to him at Madison Square Garden, is going to them. Already he has moved through the Bowery, The Bronx and Harlem; he plans sorties to Brooklyn and Wall Street-talking with people as he finds them, and praying with them. Slightly more than halfway through his New York crusade, six-footer Graham is twelve pounds lighter (172 Ibs.) than before he started out, and his world is some 23.000 souls brighter-the number who have made "decisions for Christ." But what impact has he really made on what he called "the most sinful city...
...movie's individuals are seen microscopically as mere cells of the whole. The problem is to drag, float and worry The Gun (recast from C. S. Forester's novel of that name) halfway across Spain to the walled city of Avila. The year is 1810. The objective: to bring down the wall, storm the breach and recapture Avila from the headquarters garrison...
...Moscow, and replaced the army's Soviet-styled uniforms with others more distinctively Polish. But last week a top Polish official admitted that even these concessions had failed to mollify the bristling patriotism of Poland's soldiers, who seemed dissatisfied not only with Gomulka's uneasy halfway house of independence, but with Communism itself...
...rebuke for Radford's skepticism: so important is it for the U.S. to "work on this business of disarmament," said Ike, that it must not find itself "recalcitrant . . . picayunish about the thing. We ought to have an open mind and make it possible for others ... to meet us halfway." At the end of the 2½-hour White House meeting, Dulles announced that the President had personally "resolved" the remaining "unresolved issues" in U.S. disarmament policy, and had made the final decisions...