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...having mentioned "human dignity." I almost forgot that it has been stated in a recent Harvard publication that blacks are "genetically inferior." I am referring, of course, to Arthur A. Jensen's article on black inferiority (Harvard Educational Review), which reads more like the gossip column of a South African newspaper, than like a purportedly scientific document. What is a black man to think of this institution when such a scandalous article is allowed to go unchallenged by the same professor who signed the Hunt Hall counter protest--some of whom were eminent geneticists. I suppose it takes a little...
...with other continents. Located in a spread of savanna and sandy coastland at Kourou, 26 miles north of the capital of Cayenne, the space center is tied to tracking or telemetry stations at Brétigny-sur-Orge in France, the Canary Islands, the Congo (Brazzaville), Upper Volta and South Africa. From its complex, six space probes have already been launched this year, and scientists and technicians are now working on the 18 more scheduled to follow...
Milner's 'interest in the proverb began in 1955, when he flew to the South Pacific to compile the first Samoan dictionary since 1862. There he found a rigidly stratified culture that relied on the proverb as a guide through the thicket of social life. The Samoans had proverbs for every human exchange, says Milner: "To pay respect, to express pleasure, sympathy, regret, to make people laugh, to blame or criticize, to apologize, to insult, thank, cajole, ask a favor, say farewell." Intrigued, he collected thousands of these pithy sayings...
...complex by the time Mattei died in a plane crash; critics dismissed the 72-year-old statistician as an "interim pope," but in his five-year reign he proved to be as expansive and guileful as his predecessor, plunging ENI into extensive new operations in Egypt, the Congo and South America, and playing East against West by bargaining for crude oil from both the Soviet Union and the U.S.'s Jersey Standard...
...volume of a projected trilogy on Ulysses S. Grant. His widow, searching for someone to complete the work, selected Catton, then already on his way to a Pulitzer prize with Mr. Lincoln's Army and Glory Road. Using Lewis' abundant notes, Catton carried on. In Grant Moves South (1960), he brought Grant from his unpromising early career up to his tenacious triumph at Vicksburg. Now, in Grant Takes Command, he follows the taciturn-little general to his day of final victory at Appomattox...