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...nation's wounds. Audiences responded warmly, if not emotionally, to his basic speech that the Government ought to be as good as the American people are. And his message was that all Americans?welfare recipients and welfare workers, black civil rights activists and white segregationists, hardhats and students???are good people. Despite opponents' criticisms that he was two-faced, he almost invariably took the same stand before all audiences. He might fuzz his position on some issues, or omit Martin Luther King's name from a list of great Americans as he spoke before conservatives in Florida, but his basic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: STAMPEDE TO CARTER | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

While the social results of busing may be uncertain, the academic ones ?at least for black students???are not. Choosing his words with scholarly care Massachusetts Education Commissioner Neil Sullivan contends: "The weight of available evidence gives credence to the hypothesis that students from minority groups or from a lower socioeconomic class, both black and white, achieve more when educated in mixed student bodies than they do when segregated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Agonny of Busing Moves North | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

...light of Judaism's centuries-long experience of persecution, it is not surprising that some of the reactions to anti-Jewish statements made by black leaders have verged on hysteria. When students???led, ironically, by a Black Jew who once attended Hebrew teacher's college?recently held a sit-in at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., a Jewish leader in the area suggested that "Brandeis should be made Schwarzenrein [free of blacks] the way Hitler made Germany Judenrein. One member of the school's board shouted that "we should go down there and throw the blacks out." Speaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Black and the Jew: A Falling Out of Allies | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...Paterson, N. J, seven young engineering students???George Duggan, Henry Walstenholme, Richard Jenkinson, Julian and Edward Yzewyn, Tice Van Dyk and Frederick Bomelyn?have been improving their summer evenings by prowling along the shores of the Passaic River with a dip needle, the instrument used to locate subsurface metals. Last week, under a bridge, the needle dipped strenuously. The prospectors seized shovels, dug, ejaculated, waved their shovels in muddy triumph. Their buried treasure was not a cache of pirate bullion, or a mastodon's skull, but an 18-foot iron hull designed to run under water; a submarine of primitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Salvage | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

Students. Shortly after having accepted the Premiership from his King, Ahmed Ziwar Pasha motored to the home of ex-Premier Saad Zaghlul Pasha, who cordially received him. During the Premier's visit, students??? in the street called "Yehia Saad Zaghlul!" (Long live Saad Zaghlul.) The ex-Premier sent one of his colleagues to tell them to stop and later he warned them that if they wished him to remain their leader they must return to their classes, resume their occupations, refrain from agitating. The students, known as "Zaghlul Pasha's Army," departed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easier | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

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