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...pathology"−which includes an unwillingness to make personal sacrifices beyond those already required by Negro life itself. Only last year, members of Sigma Pi Phi, an exclusive Negro fraternal organization known as "the Boule," debated whether it would be legitimate to donate $5,000 to the N.A.A.C.P. The main argument against the proposal was that an important aspect of the Boule was to allow members to relax and escape continuous involvement with the problems of being a Negro. Those who argued for the donation, including a Negro millionaire, held that a Negro cannot find even a temporary isolation from...
...tracking station in Mexico, Astronaut Pete Conrad made a calm, almost routine report. The pressure, he said, was dropping in the fuel cells' oxygen supply. The gauge that normally should have read 800 to 900 Ibs. per sq. in. was dropping fast. Since the fuel cells were the main source of power for the spacecraft's communications, computer and environment control system, they were, in effect, the heart of the Gemini mission...
...torical sites in the afternoon, assign three hours of homework, and provide time for the kids to have long talk sessions with advisers. Many of those who show promise will be given preferential admission if they apply to the same college after high school graduation. Integrated Seagulls. The main challenge to teachers is to get the youngsters to care about learning. "They are the D-minus crowd," says Western Washington's Dr. Charles J. Flora, "the kids who say to themselves, 'Hell, I could do it if I wanted to, but who wants to?' " That...
...exchange fell to practically zero for many leading companies. Then came a sudden and dramatic change. Last week, having broken all records in July, daily trading volume advanced to 1,626,447 shares, and daily sales topped $1,000,000 for the first time in history. Main reason: a new capital-market reform bill that Brazilian President Humberto Castello Branco signed into law last month. The law sets up an equivalent of the Securities and Exchange Commission by empowering the central bank to discipline the market, allows new brokers to enter the previously closed exchange, requires firms trading...
Died. Percy Hamilton Clark, 91, patriarch of the Philadelphia Main Line Clarks, uncle of Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph S. Clark and father of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's exwife, Mary Todhunter Clark, himself a lawyer and former senior partner of Clark, Spahr, Eichman & Yardley; of a heart attack; in Villanova...