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...referendum, ignoring the eschatology of De Gaulle's destiny. The referendum's proposal for government decentralization spawned a host of local antagonisms from communities that stood to lose by it. Nancy, the historic capital of Lorraine, was incensed that smaller Metz, a city of Germanic language and origin, would become the capital of its region, the new Lorraine. Though they had given De Gaulle 75% of their vote in 1962, the citizens of Nancy delivered an angry 60% of their votes against him in the referendum...
...challenging and controversial thesis put forward by a small and informal coterie of investigators who call themselves "the Cultural Mafia." Afro-American culture, they contend, is not a poor imitation of its white American counterpart but a fully developed life-style of its own. By their reasoning, the origin of the little girl's reading trouble is really simple: compared with her customary ghetto speech, standard English is virtually a foreign language...
...fire was of "suspicious origin," Deputy Fire Chief John F. Kenney of the Cambridge Fire Department, who was in charge at the fire, said in his report...
...manufacturers, they enjoy a remarkable degree of government protection against foreign competition. Despite a 50% cut in tariffs this year as a result of the 1964 Kennedy Round of global tariff negotiations, imported autos still cost two or three times as much in Japan as in their country of origin. Ford's new semicompact Maverick, which sells for $1,995 in Detroit, carries a $4,167 price tag in Tokyo...
...that the Medical School and the Division of Medical Sciences refuse to send representatives to the committee set up by President Pusey to handle future emergencies. The composition and origin of this committee make it unlikely that it will be responsive to the entire University community. Zach W. Hall John Nicholls Mario Capecchi Dennis Gould Harold Amos Torsten Wiesel Jonathan Beckwith Michael A. Bratt Luigi Gorini Edwin J. Furshpan David D. Potter