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Cliffies reacted quickly. "Students didn't take the scheme as a personal insult since the whole idea is so ridiculous, especially the idea of Radcliffe girls having to pay for a date," Mrs. Margaret Sangree, Bertram Hall head resident, explained...
...Negotiation." What touched off the talk of war was Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's joltingly tough speech rejecting Western proposals for a foreign ministers' conference on Berlin, and his calculated insult to Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, in Russia on an official peace-talking visit (see FOREIGN NEWS). In response to Khrushchev's "palpably intransigent attitude," said...
...affair, grossly inefficient, protected by high tariffs. Yet Galo and his successors down to Conservative President Ponce Enriquez have brought hope for the future and, above all, freedom. Almost daily one paper or another roasts Ponce for "fraud, deceit and treason." The President ignores them all. "Neither calumny nor insult disturbs me," he says. "I have given the press free rein...
...represents another weakening of public education as a whole, an official discouragement of the compulsory public school system. With one hand the state government supports a free school establishment, while with its other it is paying those citizens who do not wish to use it. Such provisions insult, if they do not impair, the rights of Negroes; they prolong hopes for avoiding ultimate integration in that state where it can be achieved with least agony, and they weaken the preservation of free public education throughout the south...
...elaborate Greek insult to editorial pencil wielders. Rhypokondylos, used in a fragment of Plato Comicus (sth century B.C.) and meaning "with dirty knuckles," can also, by a slight linguistic stretch, be taken to mean "with dirty pencils," since a later Greek word for pencil is kondylion...