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Lakeland, Fla. (pop. 40,500) is like many U.S. cities that have sizable (9,000) Negro populations: white neighborhoods surround the Negro communities, resist attempts of Negroes to find more room for homes. Last week both Negroes and whites in Lakeland were working out a solution to the "white collar" that will give the Negroes new room to grow. Twenty-seven white families, all home owners in the small northside subdivision of Pinehurst Courts, agreed to sell or rent their homes to Negroes...
...every innovation by the bandit-beaters, the operators develop a safeguard. And for every safeguard, there is a new way to hit the jackpot. "Hell," says one disgusted slot-machine mechanic, "you could surround the thing with sheet metal, and they will find a way to beat it." Yet for all the troubles with the professional jackpotters, there are always enough honest, ordinary suckers around to make the one-armed bandit history's healthiest highwayman...
...plain that Nasser was getting himself committed to the downfall of Kassem, and to the Communists who surround him. Last week Nasser made the sternest accusation one Arab can make about another: that Kassem was "soft" on the Jews, having refused (said Nasser) to join in a "decisive battle" against Israel last fall. And at Cairo's 1,000-year-old Al Azhar University, world center of Islamic learning, the rector or "sheik of Islam" urged the Iraqi faithful "to rise as one man" in defense against Communism's alien and atheist threat to the faith...
...ball game in the world, court tennis originated in the monasteries of mediaeval France, and in America is confined to seven courts. It is played indoors on a wooden court similar in size to a lawn tennis court and the ball is played off the irregular, sloping walls which surround the court...
...Committee on Science in General Education represents an another unsuccessful attempt to clarify the role of science in a college curriculum, and by implication in the more general body of educated men. It is unsuccessful because it does not seem willing to admit the unusual characteristics which surround science as an intellectual discipline...