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...dislike of their countrymen for their rough and sometimes ruthless pursuit of money. Unlike India's Parsees, who have provided the country with soldiers, administrators and artists, most Marwaris care little for civic improvements or municipal hygiene-they see no profit in it. Their indifference contributes to the neglect obvious everywhere in Calcutta, one of the world's most depressing cities; the wealthier Marwaris live in more pleasant surroundings in huge mansions on the city's outskirts...
...intelligent observer can easily report such bitter remarks, some of which I myself heard, as were made by certain participants in the recent National Conference on Religion and Race [Jan. 25]. Religious bodies in the U.S. deserve their quota of blame for neglect of the acute racial issue. But I fail to see past failures as an excuse for scoffing at an honest effort to marshal joint religious forces in an all-out assault upon the rapidly growing spirit of racial hatred. Are we to leave untried the power of a united appeal to our country's conscience just...
...detected, retardation is commonest, said Kennedy, in urban and rural slums, in places where women get little or no doctoring during pregnancy. And there is much retardation among these mothers' abnormally high proportion of premature babies. Children's minds also seem to wither under conditions of severe neglect, said the President, in an atmosphere of hopelessness, where there is no impetus to learning. "This self-perpetuating intellectual blight should not be allowed to continue...
...Charrier, 26, French actor who got nervous in the service, three times had to be excused from military duty when he broke down under the BB taunts of his barracks mates; each by the other; on grounds that he had deserted the conjugal home and that her meanderings caused neglect of family duties; after three years of marriage, one son; in Paris...
...does not seem to me justified--certainly not in regard to Harvard--hastily to conclude that the present dramatic advances in the natural sciences are being effected at the expense of the humanities and social sciences, or that these disciplines are now suffering indifference and neglect," Pusey commented...