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Harvard played without the services of number one man Wedge Campen, who was to opt out of the match because illness. The rest of the line-up moved one notch, with sophomore Brian slipping into the first shot. Both and second man Mike Millis respectable...
...made a start on lowering the language barrier in the civil service. Canada has a new maple-leaf flag that symbolizes neither English nor French. And Pearson has gone far to meet Quebec Premier Jean Lesage's demands for nation-within-a-nation status by allowing Quebec to "opt out" of such national schemes as old-age welfare and public works, thus freeing provincial funds that would otherwise go to Ottawa...
...federal desegregation drive is heading over the hump, it is largely because Washington has the states over the barrel. Last year the South received more than $506 million in federal education subsidies, chiefly for lunches, laboratory equipment and research projects, and this year is no time to opt out. With President Johnson counting on vastly increasing the Washington aid and concentrating it on poverty-impacted districts, Alabama's share would double, the Carolinas' triple. Alabama's George Wallace is suddenly silent on the subject of federal intervention, which could bring Alabama $35 million just...
...Botel cannot compete with the holiday luxury of La Meridiana, three miles from Cortina d'Ampezzo, in the Italian Alps. There, 50 young guests are tended by a domestic staff of 20, sleep on Beautyrest mattresses, may opt for breakfast in bed, and at lunch and supper eat like the aristocrats many of them are. Says seven-year-old Count Vincenzo Balestrieri-Cosimelli: "La Meridiana's much more amusing than a grownups' hotel. I have more time to play and lots of snow to ski in during the winter, which even Daddy can't find...
...reason why many Americans opt for vacations abroad is that almost 10% of the better U.S. hotels do not admit Jews. In the winter resorts of Florida and Arizona alone, there are 80 hotels that exclude Jewish-or Jewish-looking guests; 22 of them are in one city, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Nonetheless, B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League reported at its 51st annual meeting in Manhattan last week that there has been a dramatic retreat from discriminatory practices over the past six years. Some 60% of the U.S. hotels that overtly excluded Jews...