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...gods--Hum I sounds like a disaster! Somehow the faculty has managed to combine all the worst features of Gen Ed courses without even a token inclusion of its virtues...
...present French contribution to NATO is token at best, and it is even more minuscule in SEATO-at the last military maneuvers in Southeast Asia, France was represented by a single observer. France refuses to take a seat in the Geneva disarmament talks and will not share the U.N.'s Congo costs. De Gaulle has been contemptuous of the U.N. since its birth, both because it has the common failing of all assemblies, which "beneath their fine speeches are ruled by the fear of action," and because its members are nations, "that is, the least impartial and the most...
Still, for every tortuous inch gained, there are miles of progress left to be covered. There remain 1,888 Southern school districts where segregation is the rule-and scores of other districts where desegregation sits uneasily in token form. Though Montgomery buses are technically integrated, the city's other public facilities still are not. Team sports are still carefully segregated in a large number of Southern institutions; the NBC television network recently canceled coverage of the annual Blue-Gray football game because Negroes are not eligible to participate. Only 22 states have enforceable fair-employment laws on the books...
...race riots within two years. Last February in Sofia, Bulgarian militiamen wielded clubs against 200 Ghanaians who were marching down the main street demanding nothing more than their own campus organization. In Moscow, Africans have been smoldering for years over thinly disguised racial discrimination. Except for a token number of Russian students, the dining rooms and dormitories of Lumumba U. (which Africans sardonically call "Apartheid U.") are segregated. Africans find it difficult to date a Russian girl. Students squirm at the stares they get in public and object to poor service they often receive in restaurants. Despite professions of brotherhood...
...correct the misconception of Artemis of Ephesus you printed in a caption [Dec. 13]. "The usual figure of the Ephesian Artemis, which was said in the first instance to have fallen from heaven, is in the form of a female with many breasts, the symbol of productivity or a token of her function as the all-nourishing mother." Ostrich eggs indeed...