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...feel that students should receive their education in their own neighborhood and from their own people. Carmichael, when he came to lecture at Harvard, said that the brightest Negro students were "selling out" to offers from big name schools and Universities like Harvard when they should be helping to uphold the standards in the Negro schools. What happens only too often, Carmichael believes, is that these bright students go on to serve "the white establishment instead of the Negro ghettos...
When he became Prime Minister last week, Vorster assured his fellow whites that there was at least one principle he would uphold. "I will continue along the road of apartheid," he promised, and proceeded to deliver his own definition of it. "It is not," he said, "a denial of human dignity to anyone. On the contrary, it gives an opportunity to every individual, within his own sphere, not only to be a man or woman in every sense of the word, but also to create the opportunity to develop and advance without restriction or frustration-as circumstances justify in accordance...
...Peppard's fellow pilots, Jeremy Kemp and Karl Michael Vogler convincingly uphold the glory of the German officer class, rattling off performances unalloyed with conventional tin soldiery and Prussian steel. Playing a hero-collecting countess who adds Peppard and Kemp to her trophy shelf, Ursula Andress is considerably handicapped by high-cut period costumes, though she manages to slither out of them from time to time...
...Corporation fires Samuel S. Bowles, an instructor in Economics, for refusing to sign the Massachusetts Teachers' Loyalty Oath (all teachers in the Commonwealth must swear to uphold its and the nation's constitutions). Bowles obtains an injunction to prevent his dismissal until the Supreme Judicial Court decides whether the oath is constitutional. The University does not contest his action...
Society used to be one of the chief guardians of tradition, but what was once a fortress is now at best a series of scattered camps. Snobbery will always exist, but it is now on the defensive and increasingly hard to uphold against bright, moneyed or attractive outsiders. The chief question is no longer who belongs to a certain class and who doesn't, but who at a given moment is in or out of a particular clique-and the rule of in-and-out can be more tyrannical than any old-line social arbiter. Parties can mean anything...