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...College of Liberal Arts and the School of Law, however, have discovered just how stubborn Mississippi inertia can be. It was towards the faculty in these two schools that the attacks of 1959 were directed, and it has been the professors of these schools who first began to "pick up the pieces" after the riots and educate the student body to the could facts of desegregation and the judicial process in America...
...Somalis began running into the stubborn objections of others shortly after Somalia (pop. 2,000,000) won independence in 1960 and began building a nation out of former Italian Somalia and British Somaliland. Emperor Haile Selassie coldly said no to Somalia's insistence on annexation of an Ethiopian border area containing 1,000,000 Somalis. France likewise refused to give up French Somaliland, where 600,000 Somalis live...
...Seidman and Son from a Dear Me, the Sky Is Falling is a lot like fingerprinting a Siamese twin. If Enter Laughing is a tiny cut above the breed, it is because Playwright Stein, who adapted his comedy from the autobiographical novel of TV Comedian Carl Reiner, retains stubborn, slightly awkward traces of honest observation. He knows that the immigrant family walks on American soil hopefully, but always with the small secret fear that it is treading quicksand. A name change may spell assimilative success, but Stein recognizes that it also contains a rueful hint of cultural extinction. This...
Daley's stubborn resolve to rebuild his city has given Chicago a new stature. At the same time, its old vitality happily continues to beat out the jazzy cacophony that gives Chicago its rowdy rhythm and its imperishable lustiness. Chicago can no more do without its bawdy peep shows or its cackling Paddy Baulers than it can do without its Fields, its Swifts-and its Dick Daleys. In its own broad-shouldered way, in its anatomy and in the art of its clout, in its indestructible zest for life, Chicago is a man among cities...
...excited headlines. S.A.O. terrorism was hardly Charles de Gaulle's main concern last week. Far graver was the challenge to his authority posed by France's economy. It took the form of a spreading labor strike led by 188,000 stubborn miners concentrated in the grim coal districts of northern France. Three rival unions (Roman Catholic, Socialist, Communist) were out of the pits in a joint demand for a 12% pay boost to compensate for the creeping inflation that has wiped out much of their purchasing power in the past three years...