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...April 28), Mrs. Gladys Lowman, 31, died last week. Main cause: weakened defense against infection due to lack of white blood corpuscles. Forced to transplant a kidney from a child with no genetic relation to Mrs. Lowman, physicians had the problem of countering antibodies that would have rejected the alien organ. For the first time, they tried to solve it by destroying the antibodies' source, the patient's bone marrow, with X rays. Though new bone marrow was injected, it failed to generate enough white corpuscles to prevent the spread of infection. But physicians consider the attempt highly...
...Austrians who ruled northern Italy in the mid-19th century, the word Verdi was a nightmare. It haunted them from the very walls in huge letters, like the V sign of World War II. The great risorgimento that threw out the alien rulers and made the Italians a nation used Verdi as its symbolic pun-a tribute to Italy's greatest composer and a proud abbreviation for the name and title of its King, "Vittorio Emanuele, Re è d'Italia...
With its customary lack of grace, the United States Immigration Commission last week precipitated a seven-day international wonder show--the deportation and subsequent re-admission to the U.S. of William Heikkila, a Finish alien...
...than whites to break the laws, rules and customs of society because they are excluded from full membership in it. In gross and subtle ways, from unwritten bans on employing Negroes to the faintly patronizing tone that even liberal-hearted whites take toward them, Negroes are made to feel alien and inferior. This pervasive discrimination holds down capable Negroes at the top of the social ladder, dims their voices among their own people, builds up tensions and resentments inside the Negro society, and keeps great masses of Negroes segregated in ghettos where the standards of personal morality, discipline and responsibility...
...friends. Harvard has served well those who have searched for intellectual and moral dignity as men of learning. It has provided a home with no locked rooms. Let nobody be confused about the meaning of sectarianism in the Memorial Church. Damage has been done to our unity for reasons alien to our corporate pursuit as a University. The result will be not a weakening of the University: Harvard's capacity to ignore is much too deeply developed for that. The result, rather, is to reduce Memorial Church to the position of a parish church. Symbolically, it has lost its fitness...