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...Atlanta, Ga., last June a white minister who tried to enter a segregated church in company with two Negroes was tried under a 112-year-old state law declaring it a misdemeanor to interrupt "in any manner a congregation lawfully assembled for divine worship." He was fined $1,000 and sentenced to a year in prison, plus an extra six months of labor at "public works" after his prison term...
...humor isn't always subtle, at least it makes you laugh. Grand Fenwick's prime minister, delivering a fireside chat, destroys his country's television network by sticking his finger through the camera. When the rocket is about to be launched, the Fenwickians interrupt the countdown at four for tea. And so on for an hour and a half. Terry-Thomas, Ron Moody, Roddy McMillan and half a dozen others help Miss Rutherford make Mouse on the Moon a delightful escape...
Military service is a stumbling block to many careers. It could easily interrupt many Harvard educations. The University should appoint a respected member of the administration to serve part time, or if need be full-time, as a student military service advisor. Since he must not rely entirely on Selective Service propaganda for his facts, he will need an office staff equipped to prepare, or at least disseminate, independent information on the current Selective Service situation. Concerned students have a right to receive more from their College officials than the phone number of the Boston Selective Service Board...
Unflappable Harold Macmillan, who did not allow last week's events to interrupt his golfing vacation, will be able to present the government's case when Parliament reconvenes next week. He may yet, as in the past, confound his critics in Commons. But the affair may seriously affect the Tories' already shaky chances at the next elections, which Macmillan will now probably try to delay. Said Tory Backbencher Lord Lambton: "The harm this will do to the Conservative Party will be enormous. There has been for some time a general feeling of unrest in this country...
...syllables together to make names. Nado, one of his more recent paintings, shows his increased attention to straight lines that act both as a "container and as a dispersing agent." These lines serve not so much to limit areas of what he calls his "funny-paper colors" as to interrupt the contours of the color areas and to stimulate...