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...school desegregation, he said he didn't know, but pointed out that he himself was "sworn to uphold the Constitution." Then, in defending the slow progress of desegregation, he had a comforting word for the South: "Let's never forget this: from 1896 to 1954, the school pattern of the South was built up in what they thought was absolute accordance with the law, with the Constitution of the United States, because that's what the [separate-but-equal] decision...
...felt no hostility towards him. On the contrary, we made agreements with him . . . Instead of meeting us with friendship, Colonel Nasser has conducted a vicious propaganda campaign against our country . . . And now he has torn up all his country's promises toward the Suez Canal Company . . . The pattern is familiar to many of us, my friends. We all know it is how fascist governments behave, and we all remember only too well what the cost can be in giving in to fascism. We do not seek a solution by force . . . But this I must make plain: we cannot agree...
...Central America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. But, argued Ishibashi, "the result has not been satisfactory enough to induce the Japanese to give up Communist China." Said he: "Segregation of the China market has been the major factor contributing to the changes in Japan's trade pattern from prewar...
Across the U.S. as a whole, polio con tinued to increase in its usual seasonal pattern, but at a far slower rate than usual, giving the lowest total for the disease year (April 1 to date) since 1947. Chicago remained the hot-spot exception, with a new case tallied almost hourly, for a total of 384 at week's end (60% of the victims were children under five), with nine dead. Of 26 victims who had been vaccinated, only two had had three shots; six had two shots...
...Byrd's showy Praeludium and jaunty variations on the folk tune The Carman's Whistle. But most intriguing was Hugh Aston's Hornepype, taken from the earliest source of English harpsichord music; this too was a set of variations--not on a tune, but rather on a repeated bass pattern. It is striking for its period in its unusual length, and in the fact that it has an ever-increasing intensity whereas most Renaissance pieces preserve their initial level throughout...