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...overwhelming majority of Americans," said Neilan in Seattle last week, "simply have been indifferent to this scandal because they have not realized how deeply it affects them. I think it is time all of us stopped laughing over the antics of politicians and woke up to the fact that the business of government is our business. When we tolerate a pickpocket philosophy in politics, we defraud ourselves...
...there was a scratch on his cheek-but otherwise he seemed all right. The youngest East German refugee evidently had crossed the Iron Curtain with the ease of Br'er Rabbit skipping through the briar patch, somehow missing the mines and the gaze of the Grepos. When he woke up, he could only say: "Ich heisse Peter [My name is Peter...
...sweltering heat of Virginia's Prince Edward County, Negroes woke from long torpor last week to demonstrate against the most infamous segregationist tactic in the U.S. - the closing of all public schools there since 1959. White officials requested extra jail space in eight surrounding counties - enough, said one Negro leader, "to house every citizen of Prince Edward County, Negro and white, including horses, cattle and dogs." The poignant point of the strug gle was summed up in one teen-age picket's placard. It read: DEMOCRASY. "These niggers can't even spell," scoffed a white cop. "What...
...Would Lie There." One day last July Davis woke up with swollen glands in his neck and was ordered to an Evanston, Ill., hospital for a checkup. He had leukemia (cancer of the blood), but doctors did not tell him until October. The disease was then in a "perfect state of remission"-his blood count was normal-and Davis insisted that he was strong enough to play football. "I was never in pain," he complained. "I would lie there feeling good and strong, as if I should be able to leave and do what I wanted to, which was play...
Classes in Bistros. For most of its 110 year history, Shimer was just another women's junior college going nowhere. For a while it became a feeder school for the University of Chicago. Then, in 1949, it woke up to find itself with an $80,000 debt and only 65 students. The next year, Shimer adopted the University of Chicago's general education plan, went co-educational for the first time since the Civil War. But it took more than that to get the college moving...