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...Narrowed the gap on Red Chinese entry to the U.N. with a 47-47 Assembly vote, and raised the question whether the U.S. would be able to keep Pe king out for more than another year...
...once in his 21-hour speech did he bait the West. Moreover, he made only a perfunctory reference to "liberating" Palestine. Instead, he talked calmly and sensibly about Egypt's economic problems. The country has run up a foreign debt of nearly $3 billion, and the gap between exports and imports has widened to a record $500 million for 1965. "We are facing difficulties," Nasser conceded. "We must all work harder and make sacrifices. I have no magic button that I can push to produce the things you want...
...Last week the commission released its findings and no-nonsense recommendations* with a sober warning that unless immediate action is taken, the August riots "may seem by comparison to be only a curtain raiser for what could blow up one day in the future." Highlights: > To erase the appalling gap between the educational levels of whites and Negroes in Los Angeles schools, it-urged a one-third reduction of class size in Negro schools, a permanent preschool teaching program to include all children from age three. Cost: at least $50 million, or roughly one-tenth of the city...
Irreconcilable Appearances. "Painting relates to both art and life," says Artist Robert Rauschenberg enthusiastically. "Neither can be made. I try to act in the gap between the two." His most spectacular feat of gapsmanship was his trend-setting Angora goat with rubber tire. It seems that Rauschenberg was struck by the incongruity of a stuffed goat in an office-furniture store window. He tried to paint the image. No good. But two years later, he laid a canvas on the floor, bought the goat, and set it on top of the canvas with a rubber tire around its middle...
...University takes obvious risks in appointing a visitor from the "real world" as master of a House or College. The mastership is traditionally a link between faculty and students; a non-academic may merely widen the gap. His appointment could antagonize the faculty and make it more difficult to find masters in the future by convincing them that the university can always find acceptable men in the ranks of non-educators. Men of unique and outstanding ability like Hersey will not usually be willing to take on the responsibilities of running a dormitory. And the university might always pick...