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...Heiskell: "You black graduates who leave here-you black students who will follow-face a society whose institutions go hand in hand with a history of debasement, discrimination, deceit, hypocrisy and bigotry. The opportunity is for this generation of black Americans to remake the society. Those who take a lesser view underestimate the significance, or even the dimension, of the change that has taken place. For this generation has discovered itself, and in its newly found, self-gained pride lies the promise of altering the black man's role. You have overcome. Now you must overtake...
...Crimson main competition will probably come from the University of Pennsylvania, and to a slightly lesser extent, Vesper. West Coast crews have registered generally weak showings this year. The strongest crew on the Coast appears to be the University of Washington, and Stanford and UCLA have both come within a boat-length of Washington...
...universal feeling of relief that the worst of the crisis seemed to be over. Reviled by France's students and rejected by its workers, De Gaulle saw his government crumbling beneath him, Paris hostile and ready to explode, and opposition politicians closing ranks to cut him down. A lesser man might have quit; so serious was the situation that De Gaulle in fact considered it. But like his countrymen at the Marne 54 years before, he decided to stand his ground and fight. France responded, and by sheer force of will-and with some help from the French army...
...Publishing Corporation. He took charge of Britain's biggest publishing empire in 1951 and ruled it completely; his personality radiated confidence. At 67, he is a strapping 6 ft. 4 in., weighs over 200 Ibs., and combines a corrosive wit with an air of disdain for all the lesser creatures. Few publishers anywhere would have felt sure enough of themselves to say of their leading paper, as King said of the London Daily Mirror: "You can't publish a paper which appeals to people less educated and less intellectual...
...York is the dance capital of the world, and May was the month that proved it. During that time, the city played host to four of the world's major dance companies, plus half a dozen lesser ones. In one remarkable evening this week, all three of Lincoln Center's auditoriums were given over to ballet...