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...million capital-funds campaign, put $75 million into 26 new buildings, gave Gothic Yale a bold new look with daring designs by Eero Saarinen and other top modern architects. To emphasize liberal education, Griswold gave Yale College control of all 4,000-odd undergraduates, including the once separatist engineering students. To spur Yale scholars, he set up research fellowships for young teachers, more than doubled faculty salaries; top professors now get $22,000 a year...
...energy campaigning in those constituencies which supported them in last June's election. The socialist New Democratic Party will campaign hardest in the urban industrial areas of central and western Canada for similar reasons. Consequently the Quebec battle lines will form around the Liberal, Social Credit, and various separatist parties...
...practically nothing. Chaput, dissatisfied with mere shouting, resigned form the R.I.N. to form his own political party, the Parti Republican du Quebec. Guy Pouliot took over the leadership of the R.I.N. Meanwhile, Chaput allied himself with Dr. Raymond Barbeau and his four-year old Alliance Laurentienne. None of these separatist parties will win any seats, they will only cut down some of the Caouette vote, also very dependent on right-wing dissident French nationalists...
Epps earlier said that if America was "surprised" by the appearance of the Black Muslims, it was because of historical ignorance about the Negro tradition of voluntary association. "The nineteenth-century separatist movements contain the basic components of the Black Muslim movement today," he said. "After the failure of the Populist movement and of Reconstruction and the enactment of the Black Codes, the surprises of seeing the 'new Negro' shouldn't be surprises...
Died. Sao Shwe Thaike, 66, first President of the Union of Burma from 1948 to 1952, hereditary leader of the Shan tribe, and thought by Burma's military to be a key man behind the Shan separatist movement; he was arrested in last March's coup, when troops surrounded his rambling Rangoon mansion and shot to death his 17-year-old son; of a heart attack; while under detention in an army camp outside Rangoon...