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...reduce military forces and declare a permanent armistice. The Negeb desert, Bunche thought, would provide a good starting point. According to blueprints produced by a U.N. subcommittee, the Jews would be ordered to quit all of the Negeb (except for a small corner in the north); the Egyptians would abandon their few remaining pockets, keeping only the coastal area and a narrow strip just north of the Egyptian frontier. Beersheba, one of Israel's most treasured war prizes, would return to the Arabs under Egyptian administration. At week's end a Security Council special committee approved the Negeb...
...local judge had an idea: let the whites abandon their science courses, thus dropping their curriculum to the level of the Negro school. The school board was satisfied with this expedient, but not some of the white parents. At an open meeting in the high school gym, Mrs. Arthur Farrell protested: "We are being discriminated against just as much as our colored friends ... I have a child in the high school who planned to be an engineer. What's going to happen to him?" Replied School Board Member A. W. Walker: "Just take it as a stroke...
...simplification is unwarranted. Even in the best House Dining Halls, the food is not good, though the students are not driven to complaints by its inadequacies. In addition, the University has sunk hundreds of thousands of dollars in the central kitchen and now cannot be expected blithely to abandon it as a poor idea. The quality of Dining Hall food in the five Houses attached to the central kitchen does not require poor meals. It may never rise to Locke Obercan heights, but like University food everywhere, it may definitely be improved...
...Massachusetts' John W. MacCormack becomes House majority leader, as expected, he will probably abandon his claim on the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments. Next in line is Chicago's William L. Dawson, one of two Negroes in Congress (the other: New York's Adam Clayton Powell Jr.). Born in Georgia, Dawson is big, dark-skinned, a lawyer, a powerful speaker. He would be the first Negro to serve as a committee chairman in modern congressional history...
...Navy's new two-place jet fighter, the Douglas XF3D-1 Skyknight, has a special "escape chute" to help its crew bail out. When the pilot decides to abandon ship, he pulls a toggle. The seatbacks swing away. A door at the rear of the cockpit opens, exposing a passage sloping down and back toward the belly of the plane. At the end is a second door with two leaves. The rear leaf flies off into space. The forward leaf is pushed out hydraulically to form a windscreen. When escaping crewmen slide down the chute, the screen softens...