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About four-fifths of the residents of Yale's Jonathan Edwards college boycotted the evening meal recently in one of Yale's largest dining hall revolts in years. The action was in response to wide-spread illness reportedly caused by food poisoning...
...address climaxed a wide-spread controversy over whether the 47-year-old New Hampshire resident should be allowed to speak on the campus of the state university, Sweezy, a former CRIMSON president who is now co-editor of the New York magazine "Monthly Review," was convicted of contempt of court for refusing to answer questions about his 1954 lecture...
...regard to public benefits... wide-spread discrimination exists in the entire South... It is more difficult for the Negroes than for whites in similar economic circumstances to get on the relief rolls, and relief grants are often lower for Negroes than for whites... Hospitals, libraries, parks, and similar recreational facilities are much poorer for Negroes than they are for whites. This is true in spite of the fact that the higher sickness rates and the inferior housing conditions in Negro sections make the need for all sorts of health and recreational facilities so much greater in Negro neighborhoods....Streets...
...regard to public benefits... wide-spread discrimination exists in the entire South... It is more difficult for the Negroes than for whites in similar economic circumstances to get on the relief rolls, and relief grants are often lower for Negroes than for whites... Hospitals, libraries, parks, and similar recreational facilities are much poorer for Negroes than they are for whites. This is true in spite of the fact that the higher sickness rates and the inferior housing conditions in Negro sections make the need for all sorts of health and recreational facilities so much greater in Negro neighborhoods....Streets...
...Mississippi, one for Negroes, the other for whites. That for whites is, with a little more ineptitude, similar to the standard of justice in Massachusetts. That for Negroes is strikingly different, and is apparently predicated on the belief that "Negroes are like that." Crimes among Negroes are terribly wide-spread in West Point, but the police and the newspaper alike ignore them unless the wrong doing becomes habitual. If Negro violations were treated with the same strictness as white, the country jail would have to be tripled in size...