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...addition, Hudgins maintains that Negroes are contributing more to Harlem by dealing with the Freedom National Bank because it is doing more for Harlem than the other, white-owned, banks. Hudgins claims that the bank makes long-term loans to Negroes which they cannot obtain from white banks. In practice, the degree and nature of such discrimination is difficult to measure, since many Negroes who would like to borrow have low incomes--median Negro income in New York City is a little more than half that of median white income--and cannot hope to measure up to the established credit...
...years as Foreign Minister, Bhutto had enthusiastically engineered Pakistan's "Red shift"-away from the West toward closer ties with Communist China. Involved was a balancing act that Ayub undoubtedly initiated himself to obtain arms for his quarrel with India, but the vitriolic Bhutto often seemed more martial than his field marshal. He hobnobbed with the lately ousted pro-Chinese Indonesian Foreign Minister Subandrio, openly disavowed Ayub's agreement in Tashkent to end the Indian war, rekindled old Indian hatreds by crudely referring to his neighbors as "Indian dogs," once threatened to pull Pakistan...
...wanted electricity for the home he built on Martha's Vineyard, his lawyers told him he couldn't get it. He went all the way to the Massachusetts Public Untilities Commission and got it. When he moved to Cambridge, his lawyers told him he wouldn't be able to obtain title to the house he wanted. He went to the courts...
...Senate committee which was hearing testimony on the Bill. Speaking for the International Polity Club, several Harvard students told the committee that the voluntary system of service had proved adequate and that the government should not use compulsion until it had been proved that it was impossible to obtain soldiers in any other...
...Senate committee which was hearing testimony on the Bill. Speaking for the International Polity Club, several Harvard students told the committee that the voluntary system of service had proved adequate and that the government should not use compulsion until it had been proved that it was impossible to obtain soldiers in any other...