Word: equalizers
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...would to refer a trial of colours to a blind man." The Constitutional Convention determined to put the choice in the hands of an elite, struck upon a system of electors that was a compromise between big and small states. Each state would "appoint" a number of electors equal to its total Congressmen and Senators. If no presidential candidate won a clear majority from the electors, the contest would go into the House of Representatives, where each state would have one vote in choosing a President-another concession to the smaller states...
Amidst violent demonstrations of popular support, Louisiana Governor Jimmie H. Davis is leading the resistance to the first attempt in the Deep South to effectuate the 1954 Supreme Court decision voiding the "separate but equal" doctrine...
Cables to Peking. In Latin America, where Red Chinese efforts have become spectacular in the past year, these aims are mixed with equal portions of outright subversion. Their base is Fidel Castro's Cuba, where Peking agents now operate a newspaper, show Chinese Communist movies at the biggest theaters, and harangue the 30,000 Havana Chinese (overwhelmingly sympathetic to Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists) at streetcorner rallies. In Havana sits Kung Mai, Peking's manager in Latin America for Hsinhua, the New China News Agency. Kung Mai has constructed an intricate web of correspondents and "cultural representatives...
...Dean Eugene V. Rostow is "seriously considering" a lottery to pick evenly matched applicants. In culling 250 entrants from 1,200 applicants, Yale Law has no trouble choosing 80 from the superior "A group." Problem is selecting 170 from the remaining "B group," all of them with equal marks. "Interviews only give you impressions," said Rostow. "I myself have no faith in my ability to interview an applicant and necessarily come up with the best prospect. Choosing them by lot would probably be fairer...
...most popular of meals in the Radcliffe dormitories, for reasons fairly obvious to those who eat there. No matter how attractively yesterday's leftovers are prepared, it takes the average 'Cliffie 15 minutes or longer to walk from the Square area back to her hall for lunch--and an equal length of time to return to the Yard or the library afterwards. Because many girls find it inconvenient and sometimes virtually impossible to return to the dorm daily at noon, the Radcliffe Administration should revise the present method of providing lunches...