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...given the floor during a debate on renewal of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. To the amazement of his Northern colleagues, Ribicoff supported a Stennis amendment that would require the Government to apply its desegregation policies "uniformly in all regions of the U.S., without regard to the origin or cause of such segregation." Stennis' purpose was to relieve the mounting pressures on the South by showing that the North is just as unwilling to desegregate its schools...
Frame has been concerned for 17 years with the medical care of missionaries, many of them working in Africa. He has been struck repeatedly by the number reported each year to have died from fever of unknown origin, despite proper treatment for such diseases as malaria and typhus. Frame suspected that some of these mysterious fevers might be caused by still unrecognized viruses, so he arranged to get blood specimens from returning missionaries and from sick missionaries still in Africa. His reasoning: the viruses would have left indelible footprints, in the form of antibodies, in their victims' blood...
...fire of undetermined origin swept through Matthews Hall late Saturday night, displacing five students and causing several thousand dollars worth of damage...
Deputy Fire Chief John F. Kenney said that the fire was "of suspicious origin." Fire marshals began a formal investigation this morning...
...purpose and origin of the poll are a total mystery. The return address on the questionnaire is a box in the Minneapolis main post office. There is no telephone listing there for anything called "National Campus Poll"; someone named E. W. Pryor, who signed the letter accompanying the questionnaire, is not listed there either...