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...supporters claim, however, that PR's great asset is that it enables different minority groups to gain representation roughly equal to their strength. Thus, on the present Cambridge Council there is one Italian-American, one Negro...
...wall in East Boston, one embittered Italian-American scrawled-'Leif Ericsson is a fink." In other cities across the U.S., indignant sons of Italy and politicians eager for their votes, reacted in like manner to word that Yale University had acquired a medieval map containing additional evidence that Leif Ericsson, riding the wild Atlantic winds reached the North American shore about the year 1000 (TIME, Oct. 15). Though Leif's landing is hardly news in scholarly circles, Yale's just-before-Columbus Day announcement stirred a storm of popular protest strong enough to have blown his longships...
Vellucci has promised to root for Harvard in the Yale game Nov. 18, plans to go to New Haven with a contingent of his Italian-American friends from Cambridge as a cheering section, and, worst of all for the Elis, has assured the Crimson football team of a full-scale Italian dinner if they come home winners...
...heroine (Arlene Francis) is a middle-aged housewife- romantic despondent, full of vague aspirations', and a bit of a nit - who doesn't know whether to put her faith in Freud or Betty Fnedan. She is carrying on an illicit affair with an Italian-American sex mechanic (Robert Forster) who is young enough to be her son. She tries to inoculate the boy with culture by drooling John Donne to him, but he is a resolutely monosyllabic nobrow...
Long & Short. It is true that when we start a national political campaign we will form a Jewish committee and an Italian-American committee and a Polish-American committee, and so on. Then, when we get into office, what...