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...have two daughters, and am thoroughly in favour of sexual integration and equality of opportunity, and the further it goes the better. As a matter of fact, it has gone considerably further in England than it has in America. I think that when you Americans talk about women's lib, that what they're really after is equal pay and an equal cut of the economic cake. What they're really after is money, like all Americans. In England, we've had equality of pay and equality of opportunity among the sexes all my adult life. There...
...sensuality is a passing excitement; perhaps the ultimate fantasy of all"). His characters-including a Who's Who of English politics, journalism and literature-are wickedly sketched, from the most obscure London banker ("The very texture of his face was like a parchment deed made out in his favour") to General de Gaulle ("The face of a man born to lead a lost cause, with the additional sorrow that it would ostensibly triumph...
Although the momentum seemed to have shifted in Harvard's favour for the crucial third game, it was Yale's turn to display some offensive might. After both teams started slowly at 2-2, Yale scored a seven-point outburst to coast to an easy 15-6 victory...
Whitlock rejected the Lobby's plan in favour of an alternate proposal by the Committee of House and Undergraduate Life. The CHUL plan called for each House to elect two students to a College-wide panel of electors. This panel will then choose two of its members for the ACSR...
...Balfour's letter of Nov. 2. 1917 to Lord Rothschild contained the words: "His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish People ... it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine." It will be seen that Mr. Balfour pledged nothing. Nor was he or the government of Great Britain in a position to pledge the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Palestine'' was never a British colony, territory or possession...