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Over His Head. The week began with a call on new neighbors across Lafayette Square from the White House: the A.F.L.-C.I.O. high command, dedicating an eight-story headquarters at 815 Sixteenth Street. The next day Ike wrote a godspeed message to departing Indonesian President Sukarno, hoped Sukarno "found what you sought in America as a state of mind and as the center of an idea." That afternoon he squeezed in 18 holes of golf at Burning Tree Country Club, that evening joined ten congressional leaders around the Cabinet table for a solemn 80-minute discussion on the foreign...
Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government, the development of non-white nationalistic movements; Myron P. Gilmore, professor of History, legal humanism in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; Albert J. Guerard, professor of English, the modern novel, particularly the works of Joseph Conrad; Richard E. Pipes, research associate in the Russian Research Center, the ideas and social basis of Russian conservatism from its emergence at the end of the eighteenth century...
...statement to the CRIMSON earlier in the week, Macdonald revealed that he favored paying the actual expenses of any athlete selected by the U.S. Olympic Association to represent this country at the sixteenth Olympiad in Melbourne...
...forthrightly said that he tries not to offend hostesses who serve spirits. But those who place all manner of grog before him are treated to no crass bacchanalian spectacle.When the festivities wind up, the liquor level in the Archbishop's glass is never lowered by more than "one-sixteenth of an inch." Confessed Slight Sipper Fisher: "It is no virtue on my part. It happens that I don't like...
...Section 54 of a Virginia law passed in 1924, white Virginians are permitted to marry only whites-those who have "no trace whatever of any blood other than Caucasian." (In deference to the proud descendants of Pocahontas, there is an exception in favor of those who may be "one-sixteenth or less" American Indian, but otherwise all white.) Under the law, white-colored marriages of Virginia residents are "absolutely void" even if they have been contracted out of state, and both parties in an interracial marriage may be sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary...