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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abolish one of the last vestiges of rugged individualism. Sectioning this year for limited enrollment courses will be determined regardless of time or order of application. In the past, the first students on, line were admitted to courses, and going to the College's Saturday morning sectioning meetings meant rising at 6 a.m. to get a good place in line...
Moses rises from the back of the church. He states that he believes the administration will try and trap the MFDP by offering a new compromise. "They promised," continues Moses, "to abolish segregation in Mississippi politics. I asked Humphrey if that meant the federal government would aid in voter registration. "Those are two seperate matters,' he replied...
...That meant that some action had to be taken on Ev's motion before Congress adjourns this year, and Dirksen, who is not up for reelection, seemed to be in no great hurry. "I can stay here until Christmas," he said. "This issue will have to be resolved...
While Napoleon was busy collecting countries, his maternal half uncle, a priest named Joseph Fesch, was busy collecting art. Pulling rank (he soon became a cardinal) Fesch acquired Dutch masters, Italian primitives and renaissance greats. Waterloo meant little to Fesch; he simply moved into the Vatican; but after that he had to rely more on his eye. Once in a junk shop he spied a cupboard with a finely painted door, even though one plank was missing. Later, he found the missing section as part of a stool. Today the picture is on view in the Vatican museum-Leonardo...
...hasn't the right to his own cliche, who has?" asks C. P. Snow in the preface to his latest novel. A good question, rougher than he apparently realized. For though Snow meant it to apply only to the title of Corridors of Power, which sneaked into print years before the book itself, the question spotlights the strength and weakness of his whole novel and of his entire Strangers and Brothers sequence, of which this is the ninth volume. Corridors of Power is the capstone of the sequence so far; it is on balance a very good novel, which...