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...Harvard Freedom Council will sponsor a talk next week by Herbert L. Matthews of the New York Times. Matthews will discuss his recent visit to Cuba, on Monday, Feb. 9, at 8 p.m., in the Chapel Room of Phillips Brooks House...
Last week's display of mutual irritation was only the latest and most dramatic evidence of a progressive deterioration in U.S.-Philippine relations. In recent months prominent Filipino politicians have proposed anti-American measures ranging from economic discrimination against U.S. products to renaming Manila's Dewey Boulevard. Last month President Carlos Garcia declared that Asians "must move away from complete dependence on the protective might of the U.S.," began to drop hints that he hoped to develop an independent Philippine foreign policy based on close cooperation with other Southeast Asian nations, including cold-war neutrals...
...recent changes in the method of Harvard education are clear evidences of the strength of this academic force. The first is the growing tendency of undergraduate courses to fatten up their reading lists without any clear motive beyond a quest for scholastic respectability. The result of this tendency can be seen most forcibly in the crowds in Lamont, struggling to complete reading assignments which demand too much of both a student's time and capacity. The second change is in the new regulations on Honors study which require of every sophomore a much stiffer tutorial program than had previously existed...
Latest addition to the heartwarming legend growing up around Pope John XXIII: at a recent audience for a group of Italian bishops. His Holiness, who served as an NCO with an Italian medical unit during World War I, spied the Rt. Rev. Arrigo Pintonello, chief chaplain of the Italian army, wearing a general's insignia. As the bishop prepared to genuflect and kiss the papal ring, the Pope stepped up smiling, saluted, reported in: ''Sir, Sergeant Roncalli, at your command...
...recent years U.S. Supreme Court rulings have given states more and more power to ban peaceful picketing. Last week the Supreme Court reversed this trend, ruled that states may ban picketing only when there is violence. The court's ruling came in reviewing a Florida Supreme Court ban on picketing by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Hotel and Restaurant Employees, which struck 23 Miami and Miami Beach hotels in 1955. seeking bargaining rights. Because the union represented only a few employees, the Florida court barred it from picketing. The Supreme Court held that state courts are without jurisdiction to issue...