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Some of the classrooms were empty, but the principal, Miss Eleanor P. McAuliffe,* refused to admit the Negro children. She had to refuse. District of Columbia officials interpret a law, passed by Congress in 1862, as requiring segregated public schools...
...State Department, the whole affair was a big headache. No matter how indiscreetly Prío had behaved, Latin Americans from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego would unfailingly interpret his arrest as overt U.S. support of Strongman Batista...
...sincerely interested in the game and the team are deprived of better seats because of waste, free distribution, and profiteering. There is no good reason why we should be forced to see the Ohio game from the same seats we saw the Yale game last year. I do no interpret this increased turnover of tickets as a sudden increase in interest, and I don't believe it is entirely due to the fact that the increased tuition cost includes the price of athletic tickets. I think a nominal service charge for processing free tickets would discourage some people from obtaining...
...enlighten themselves, or to inform, or even to entertain. If it hasn't got pictures, most of them are stuck. What is the result? In a first-class bureaucracy like the modern army or navy or air force, with its myriad regulations which one must be able to interpret and analyze to get along, we have boys who do not know what they are doing, or why, and never will...
...which began shortly after World War I (and publishes the quarterly review Foreign Affairs), is a nonprofit institution devoted to research and study of the international aspects of American political and economic problems. The purpose of the fellowship is to "help correspondents to increase their competence to report and interpret events abroad ... to give men who have been preoccupied with meeting deadlines an opportunity to broaden their perspective by means of a coordinated program of reading, study and informal discussion." Richardson will study at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, and commute to New York for council...