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Despite Le Corbusier's grand conception, the Unite d'Habitation has been only a partial success. The apartments, arranged as duplexes, have 15-foot-high living rooms opening on four-foot-deep balconies. But, the bedrooms are very narrow--only 13-feet for the master bedroom and a scant six-feet for children's rooms and both kitchens and bathrooms are windowless. The arrangment has brought criticism on the grounds that it is cramped and lacks privacy...
...point is that the application of 'parallelism' is open-ended. The Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, which has taken on the defense of Advance, recently published a "partial check-list of subversive opinions," based on official Communist Party pronouncements. As could be expected, peace, civil rights, and farm subsidies are subversive. Higher wages and the shorter work week are, too. Consumer protection, rent control and reduction of taxes--frequent objectives of the Democratic Party--have also made the blacklist. Better job opportunities and educational facilities for young people, slum clearance, and anti-discriminatory housing provisions are also Communist goals...
...many races. It is significant therefore that the HCUA did not say the Association would discriminate against Chinese or Arabs, but only against the white race. The spokesman for the Association, Mr. Armah, said, "The terms African and Afro-American cover many races including Arabs and persons of partial European descent." This means there is no discrimination on of color or creed: There is no discrimination on the basis of color or creed: Armah pointed out that Africans and Afro-Americans include "people who are more white than black"; the Association is not a religious organization...
...breaking off the talks, Pakistan reluctantly agreed to another meeting later this month in New Delhi. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, due in Karachi for a meeting of the CENTO nations, would be taking time out to urge a Kashmir settlement on the Pakistanis. Lest he appear partial, Rusk would also carry his appeal to New Delhi this week, where he is due to hold talks with Indian Prime Minister Nehru...
...delegates with full voting rights will be Danny J. Boggs '65, Sanford J. Ungar '66, Hendrick Hertzberg '65, and John R. Taylor '65. Alternates, who will go to the convention with partial voting rights, are Chester Johnson '66, William C. Wooldridge '65, John Haviland '66, and David Morton...