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...earthen spittoons hung round the neck because their spitting on the ground might "pollute" barefoot Brahmans. Until the 1930s, the lowliest Untouchables were virtually "unseeable" as well in some parts of India; caste Hindus believed even an Untouchable's shadow was defiling. Though such attitudes no longer prevail, a special government inquiry commission recently concluded that despite decades of legislation, discrimination is still "virulent all over India...
...Spock is an almost luminously decent man himself. If translated into a television series, he might well be played by Robert Young. Despite his defiant opposition to the war in Viet Nam, the edifice of his thought is a white clapboard New England house where tolerance, patience and kindliness prevail. But his middle-class values are rescued from complacency by an articulate and increasingly outraged social concern. It is difficult to imagine "Marcus Welby, M.D.'' standing trial for conspiracy to subvert the nation's draft laws...
Finally, we agree that essential fairness and basic standards of justice ought to prevail in these proceedings however they are conducted. The Committee believes it must and does provide a fair hearing to the students involved; our published procedures, considerably more elaborate than those followed by the Administrative Board, are designed to insure this. Every student is given an opportunity to face his accuser, to have an adviser, to know all the evidence against him, to offer any evidence he wishes, to have a recording made, and to ask for reconsideration. The Committee before which he ?s called is composed...
...famed father's footsteps, are headed for a punishing primary that only Democrats will enjoy. Despite allegations of misconduct leveled against him by LIFE magazine, Rhodes is no underdog to the stolid Taft. Democrats expect that in their primary, former Astronaut John Glenn's glamour will prevail over Cleveland Lawyer Howard Metzenbaum, a former state legislator. They hope that the internal Republican warfare will damage both Taft and Rhodes enough to offset the fact that Glenn has shown no out-of-this-world abilities as a politician. There is no clear favorite. TEXAS. Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough should...
While there may, in fact, be entirely valid and cogent reasons for Harvard's refusal to consider some such working agreement with the Boston Patriots Football organization, those reasons have not been made clear, and until they are made so and may be judged to prevail, a good number of Harvard's sons (including myself), and an even greater number of Bostonians-at-Large, wonder why such an arrangement would not be to the benefit of the City the Patriots, and of Harvard...