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State Senator Verda Welcome, the only Negro in Maryland's upper house, immediately introduced a bill to abolish the miscegenation statute, but her repealer was given little chance in a legislature still dominated by rural, Dixie-oriented lawmakers. The Maryland law and similar statutes in 17 other states (all Southern or border states except Wyoming) may be killed only when miscegenation is considered squarely by the Supreme Court, which has thus far avoided the constitutional question involved. As for Meki and Jo Ann, they were married last week in the Washington (Episcopal) Cathedral before driving to their new home...
...authors were sentenced to serve their term in a "rigorous-regime collective-labor colony." That probably meant one of the two Mordvinian camps in the upper Volga Basin, where they may see relatives three times a year, receive letters once a month, and be "paroled" only to a less severe camp. Since neither man is especially robust, long hours spent chopping trees and doing other heavy outdoor labor under sub-zero winter conditions could prove fatal. As far as Pravda, Tass and Izvestia were concerned, that would hardly be too harsh for what Tass described as "dirty foam brought...
...ships and planes. Egypt is developing three brands of short-range missile-the 230-mile-range Al Zafer (Victorious), the 375-mile Al Kaher (Conqueror) and the 500-mile Al Raid (Pioneer). Linked with the nuclear warheads that Nasser hopes to develop or acquire, they might give him the upper hand over Israel, provided...
...five years-as well as for gaping chuckholes in the streets, beneath which Tripoli is installing its first modern sewer system. New hotels and apartment houses are sprouting like desert flowers; three new hotels worth $10 million will soon be started in Tripoli alone. A small upper-middle class has grown enormously wealthy, built hundreds of lavish villas in the fashion able Tripoli suburb of Georgimpopoli...
...need many traditional basic courses. The idea, says Harvard's Director of General Education Edward T. Wilcox, is that the freshman year no longer need be like an army's basic training, with "all incoming freshmen treated alike in large, required courses," but can offer "new, upper-level courses -a series of options." Changes are motivated, too, by the realization that a student who pursues subjects that deeply interest him is likely to learn more. As Notre Dame Senior David Sauer puts it: "Only a challenge of my own can turn...