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Luckiest of all was Harbor Pilot Harold Kaiser. Unable to get off the liner United States by small boat after clearing New York Harbor in the rough seas, he sailed off to Europe on an unexpected 13-day vacation cruise...
...Oakland's fight for new life is much more than a building program; it includes an imaginative effort to solve deep-seated social problems. During World War II, Negroes began to migrate by the thousands to work in the Kaiser shipyards on the Oakland waterfront; after the war, they kept coming. Since 1950 the number of Negroes in the city has leaped from 48,000 to 84,000-or from 12% to 23% of the total population. The swelling Negro segment aggravated Oakland's fever chart. The schools got worse, crime and juvenile delinquency rose, slums spread...
...East-West nuclear test competition that should lead to war by 1970. The astrologers of Nepal foresee more immediate consequences. Mani Prasad Ti-wari predicts political changes in China, possibly a revolt in Nepal, natural disasters in Russia, and "civil disturbances" somewhere southwest of Washington, D.C. Nepalese Field Marshal Kaiser Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, an amateur astrologer, expects at least an earthquake near by, and foresees another disturbing possibility: "I would not be surprised if this heralds the coming of a new age in which women will have more rights...
...imperative to distiguish Russell from the bulk of conscientious objectors, since he supported England's entry into W.W.II. He never invoked a moral absolute so his change of heart cannot rightly be held inconsistent: in 1915, war seemed more noxious than defeat by the Kaiser. Yet in 1939 he said, "I am still a pacifist in the sense that I think peace the most important thing in the world. But I do not think there can be any peace in the world while Hitler prospers...If we lose it will be hell, probably for a long time to come...
...Lucius Clay for a new school, got money and help from the U.S. and West Berlin's late Mayor Ernst Reuter. Organized on the same day that the Berlin blockade began, Free University started out with candlelit classes in a few shoddy houses and the remains of ths-Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, its campus the city's streets and its study halls any handy park bench...