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While rubbernecking in Manhattan in his billowy red robes of office and a three-cornered black hat, the Lord Mayor of Bristol, England, Fitzroy Chamberlain, dropped an unlikely footnote to history. Historians, said he, are hopelessly unjust in attributing the name America to Italian Mapmaker and Merchant Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512). The eponym in truth: a fine English lad named Richard Amerycke. In the Bristol view of history, Amerycke, a customs collector, saw to it that Italian Explorer John Cabot, who discovered Cape Breton Island in 1497 and claimed it for the British crown, received a pension from King Henry...
...same element of unpredictability-the suggestion that a mild explosive has been put into the prominently displayed tumblers of Sponsor Lipton's tea-derives from the widespread belief that Paar permits off-color humor. On the whole the charge is unjust. The show's most celebrated blue note was struck while Paar was on vacation and Stand-In Jonathan Winters allowed Anthropologist Ashley Montague to talk about how lack of breast feeding gives American males a bosom fixation. Jack says he would never have permitted it ("After breast feeding, there's just no place...
...drive out the Sassenach. In 1942 he was jailed for not submitting to the English draft-not because it was a draft, but because it was English. After he was led to the lockup, a band of bagpipers skirled round the building playing a composition in his honor, The Unjust Incarceration. In 1944 he ran gallantly, although unsuccessfully, for Parliament on a platform of. roughly, "Remember Bannockburn." More or less in the spirit of things, he published, while lecturing at Aberdeen University, something called The Aidd Aberdeen Courant and Neo-Caledonian Spasmodical. But his most bravely brandished weapon is Lallans...
...Perhaps we are unjust," Samuel H. Beer declares, but the Government Department keeps its graduate program small, in order to attract only the best people. Seventy-three graduates participate in the program. All but two of the fourteen courses currently offered, however, have undergraduate members. Nearly 30 per cent of the enrollment in these courses is undergraduate. This percentage of participation has showed little discernible difference between the bright upperclassman and the beginning graduate student. A concentrator in the department for three years who is involved in writing an honors thesis may well be of higher caliber than the first...
...basic point is easier to accept than the statistics K. & A. attach to it: they flatly claim that workers in the U.S. account for less than 10% of the wealth produced, while capital instruments account for more than 90%. To K. & A., this means expropriation of capital as unjust in its way as the exploitation of labor was in "primitive" 19th century capitalism...