Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official state of emergency. Wedded to a policy of avowed racial "partnership," Sir Roy is in fact guided and moved by a Parliament that rejects a political voice for Africans, and by a public opinion that supports laws and customs not much different from South Africa's-except, say its critics, for the addition of hypocrisy. The son of a Russian-Polish immigrant who gave up a profitable fur trade in the U.S. Midwest to try his luck in the South African diamond rush, husky young Roland Welensky left school at 14 and wandered all over Africa, taking jobs...
...Egyptian men, marriage has long been a most enjoyable custom. By tradition, any Moslem husband tired of his bride had simply to say thrice, "I divorce thee," and the marriage was over and done with. And there was a special added, non-Islamic benefit. If the wife left him and went home to mother, and her husband still wanted her, he had simply to appeal to the courts, and the judge would obligingly sentence her to the Bait al-Taah, the House of Obedience. Under this dread practice, the police would arrest the woman wherever they found...
Pediatricians should be the happiest of specialists, for as they say. "We are suffering from growing pains." Their business is booming, and because they treat the whole child (thus slopping all over the territory of most other specialists), they take on much of the aura of the oldfashioned family doctor. But even they complain: they would like to get their patients away from the obstetrician more promptly after birth, and some want to edge into consultation on the mother's condition before delivery...
...Harvard's current freshman class's median score was 691 on the math aptitude test, almost 100 points higher than the class of 1956. But real "intellectual promise" may be something else, suggested the committee. And all the emphasis on numbers has an ominous effect: "Who can say how many gifted youngsters are frightened away from Harvard...
...parent institution, Oakland is an avowedly intellectual school limited to such rigorous matters as rhetoric, Russian, philosophy of science. Last month Oakland's first 570 freshmen got the shock of their lives: 43% flunked in chemistry, calculus and economics. Nothing like this ever happened at old M.S.U. Says 18-year-old Mike Deller: "It's rough, really rough. But I'm glad. Some day it's going to mean something to say you graduated from here...