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...block Bonn's overtures to Eastern European countries, has continued to attack the Federal Republic publicly and has generally acted the way Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht looks: tough and unbending. It is even using Martin Luther to exacerbate relations with West Germany. It has limited to a meager 100 the number of West German clergymen who may come to this month's ceremonies at Wittenberg commemorating the 450th anniversary of the posting of the 95 Theses. Those who do get in must affirm that they oppose Bonn's "revanchist policies." East Germany is also trying to transform...
...making value comparisons among groups do so on two grounds. The first is that science as yet lacks valid tools to sort mankind into biological races. The second is that even if science possessed such tools, the racial divisions could not conceivably be used to grade human worth. So meager is man's understanding of the complicated biochemistry of evolution and of the nonhereditary influences of cultural environment that no one can confidently assign that portion of intelligence with which man was born and that part he acquired. If heredity bestows his capacity to learn, culture decides what...
...orderly and expeditious processing of litigation is a right which each of us should be able to ask of our judicial system, no matter what our station in life or how meager to nonexistent our resources may be. In the name of human dignity we can ask no less, yet we must admit that we are failing far short of our goal...
...practical purposes, those people who will vote for Mrs. Hicks in November have already voted for her. And that is enough to win. Mrs. Hicks' primitive campaign style, her meager finances, and the attractiveness of Kevin White will probably keep her out of City Hall by a hefty margin...
...next years were filled with reverses. She took a job as a governess in Yorkshire to supplement the meager family income, was crushed to find herself treated as a common servant. Hoping to start her own school, she enrolled in a Brussels pensionnat to perfect her French and learn feminine "accomplishments"; instead, she broke her heart over the school's happily married director...