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...have heart trouble and the doctor told me I should live at sea level." One sewer had a sign reading: "For Rent; Ten Cruzeiros." The "proprietor" said he rented the place at night "to couples." The police hauled 15 sewer-dwellers to jail, carted away two truckloads of makeshift furniture and cooking utensils, and unplugged the sewers...
King George County's high school for white children had a gymnasium, central heating, showers, a good cafeteria and a fair-sized library. King George's Training School for Negroes got its heat out of old oil drums converted into makeshift stoves. It had rickety outside privies and so little classroom equipment that not even the most elementary science courses could be given. When the N.A.A.C.P. found that conditions in Gloucester followed much the same pattern, it decided to go to court. Result: last summer, a federal judge in Richmond ordered the Gloucester and King George school boards...
Although Harvard had trouble in the singles, the three doubles teams--two makeshift pairs and the number four pair--defeated their Amherst opponents in straight sets...
...more outdoor practice the team gets the better it will be. Much more individual improvement will be accomplished on the varsity's excellent Soldiers Field courts than on the makeshift Blockhouse courts. So far the weather has allowed but two afternoons outdoors...
...other advocates of European unity last week gathered in Brussels for the first International Council of the European Movement (an outgrowth of the Congress of Europe last year at The Hague). Brave and lofty words were spoken at Brussels, some of them in Mr. Churchill's makeshift French, but the gap between this private crusade and government action remained as wide as ever...