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...another voice that could yet stir up a hornet's nest was that of Washington's Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, a New Frontiersman and an influential member of the Armed Services Committee. Although he will probably vote to ratify the treaty, Jackson remained worried about the possibility of a Soviet doublecross...
Trypanis, Bywater and Southeby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at Oxford, yesterday said there was "a very good response" to his course, and called the experiment a definite success. The enthusiastic reacton to Comp Lit S-174, Trypanis hopes, will stir further interest in seeking funds for a permament chair...
Fears & Illusions. All these changes stir deep fears and emotions. Negroes, demanding more than token integration, have lately attacked de facto segregation by street-marching protests in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, "study-ins" at the white schools of Englewood, N.J., sit-ins at the boards of education of New York and Chicago. Whites envision their neighborhood schools being flooded with poorly prepared Negro pupils, or their own children being forced to "integrate" Negro slum schools. A feeling of "discrimination against the majority" has sparked reactions like that of white parents in Montclair, N.J., who filed a federal suit under...
...generate power." Measured against British coolness to the Anglican faith (of 27 million baptized members, only 3,000,000 are registered on parish rolls), the Diocese of Southwark is indeed bubbling. And Bishop Stockwood, 50, a charming and worldly man in whom humility coexists with vanity, gives it another stir almost daily. In the process, he has become perhaps the most storied bishop in England...
...election campaign. Some went to newsmen, others to politicians. All originated in London, were in envelopes stamped airmail, and seemed timed to influence the elections. But if that was the purpose, the senders bungled: most of the copies came by sea and arrived too late to cause a campaign stir...