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...been established to assist graduate students in finding homes. For example, through PBH Harvard offers the student a list of apartments whose landlords have signed a pledge promising "not to refuse to rent to any student of Harvard University and Radcliffe College because of race, creed, color, or national origin." MIT has a similar listing, as does the International Student Association...
...There is an entire subplot liaison between Duc and his Citroën. What with cars and guns, women and wars, the Hemingway hero is always counting his good times on his fingers and telling why they went bad. The great good time in 20th century fiction, and the origin of the fête idea, was the three-day fiesta of the running of the bulls at Pamplona in The Sun Also Rises. Fetes end, Due tells himself, when there is a fall from what sportsmen call "form," mystics call "grace" and gamblers call "luck." What actually happens...
...politically inarticulate tribes into the monolithic Tanganyika African National Union party. Unlike the Mau Mau in adjoining Kenya, Nyerere has modified his racist stand, now insists: "The struggle against colonialism must not be confused with racialism. Both the color of a man's skin and his country of origin are irrelevant to his rights and duties as a citizen." Last year Tanganyikans showed that they like Nyerere's crusading for solidarity; his party swept 70 out of 71 legislative seats...
...question has long agitated Americanists-the scholars and experts who specialize in the prehistory of the Western Hemisphere and who explore the origin and development of such high civilizations as the Mayans and the Incas...
Tunes of Glory (Colin Lesslie; Lopert). Up at the castle the pipers are piping a jig for Jock Sinclair. Rank: acting C.O. of a Highland battalion. Origin: wrong side of Glasgow. Military record: rose through the ranks, took command of the battalion at El Alamein. led it to glory. Personal data: has hair like ginger and a temper to match. Remarks: Jock loves the battalion, the battalion loves Jock, and the paughty people who see this picture will love him too. because Jock Sinclair is one of the most lifelike creatures that ever sprang full-snooted from the jovial brow...