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Although the Supreme Court actually has reversed itself on segregation and civil rights decisions, its recent ruling on school segregation is the law and the law should stand. So said Howard Whiteside, trial lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union last night in Lowell House Junior Common Room...
...Sherman Adams verdict was one of the most dramatic behind-the-scenes stories in recent U.S. political history. In a sense, as TIME'S Washington Bureau Chief John Steele reported this week, it had been inevitable ever since last June, when a House investigating subcommittee revealed that Adams had accepted a vicuna coat, $2,000 in hotel bills and other gifts from Boston Textile Wheeler-Dealer Bernard Goldfine. In turn, Adams had interceded for Goldfine with federal regulatory agencies. President Eisenhower's original decision to stand behind Adams imposed an intolerable double standard on Administration ethics...
...bridge world back in the early 1930s, has steadily maintained a reputation among the experts as one of the very greatest players, though he stands only twelfth in master points (2,919) and makes his living as a travel agent instead of a fulltime bridge pro. A recent recruit to Charles Goren's team, Schenken is a highly deceptive player, masks his imaginative boldness with an air of easygoing calm. In contrast, Washington's quick-minded Alvin Roth, 43, is a worrier, and shows it. No. 6 in master points with 3,849^, Roth "suffers from being...
...Undergraduate Cabinet of Phillips Brooks House has requested the PBH Faculty Committee and Graduate Secretary to investigate the recent charge of discriminatory housing policies on the part of landlords who list their names with the University Housing Registry at PBH, Richard E. Rubenstein '59, PBH President, said yesterday...
...that it takes half of Leningrad Popular Science Films Studio's production to get us out of the past. Billed as "Russian science fiction," the Brattle film is only partly that. After an account of the early struggles of the late Soviet scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a breathless rundown of recent rocket developments culminates at the magic date of October 4, 1957. As past becomes future, satellites flourish, Soviet citizens view the "other" side of the moon on TV, the planets unfold their secrets, and the narrator's tone loses none of its confidence...