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...Bandaranaike gives top priority to a crusade for a Buddhist revival that has strongly nationalist overtones. This crusade terrifies the 2,000,000 Tamils in Ceylon's 9,600,000 population; they are Hindu by religion and fearful that they will be relegated to second-class citizenship. Ceylon badly needs foreign investment, yet the Prime Minister backs a bill giving the government the right to expropriate all foreign oil property down to filling stations and trucks. She has urged Nehru to accept the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of "stateless" plantation workers originally imported from India, has simultaneously proposed...
Most important, the new Dean should implement more flexible concentration requirements. Professor Gill's recent proposals present one attractive alternative. Tutorial would be open, in effect, to any student desiring it, and the "second-class citizen," the non-Honors candidate, would not be discriminated against...
...majority, "that every time a bus stops at a wholly independent roadside restaurant the act applies." But even this limited legal victory was gratifying to the N.A.A.C.P. Said a spokesman for the organization: "I assume it will mean an end to one more sector of embarrassment and second-class treatment for Negro travelers...
...into the campaign with an all-but-personal telecast attack on Jack Kennedy's charges against the Republican record. "When in the face of a bright record of progress and development, we hear some misguided people wail that the United States is stumbling into the status of a second-class power and that our prestige has slumped to an alltime low, we are simply listening to a debasement of the truth...
...will be the first to place a human in orbit: the U.S.'s Project Mercury, recovering from an embarrassingly slow start, is not far behind, but it will be at least nine months before a U.S. astronaut will enter orbit. "We have," mused one U.S. space expert, "a second-class nag in a first-class horse race." The Soviet achievement should give Russia an exploitable propaganda advantage. But what else, in terms of the basic science that may well decide man's future, will it mean? And what lies beyond mere orbiting in man's adventure into...