Briefly Noted

In these troubled days with unresolved conflicts among Blacks in Africa, three Yale professors have attempted to meet a particular challenge in direct and concentrated fashion. Their results may be found in Resolving Conflict in Africa, The FermadaWorkshop of which Leonard W. Doob '29, Professor of Psychology, is editor. Assisted by his colleagues William J. Foltz (Political Science) and Robert B. Stevens (Law), he brought together at the Fermada Hotel, South Tyrol, six Somalis, six Kenyans, six Ethiopians, and four American trainers to see whether the use of T-groups (T for Training) might contribute to the solution of two expensive and life-destroying border conflicts between Ethiopia and Somalia and between Kenya and Somalia. Australia qualified as the workshop, as no place in Africa could be so neutral. Published by the Yale University Press (209 pages, $7.50), the book presents chapters by three of the African participants, one from each country, all writing independently of one another with enormous differences in points of view and value judgments. Other chapters discuss the frustrating difficulties in planning the workshop, appraisal by three Americans, stragetic issues, and a final summary, "Towards a Solution," by Messrs. Doob, Foltz, and Stevens.

The mixed marriage per se does not exert as negative an influence on the religious participation of the inter-married as has been thought. This is the conclusion reached by Rudolf K. Haerle Jr. '53 in his article "Church Attendance Patterns Among Intermarried Catholics, A Panel Study" in Sociological Analysis, Winter 1969.

In Look magazine of September 25, 1970 William G. Calm '34 claims that the right of American women to suffrage was won by Harry T. Burn, in 1920 a member of the Tennessee Legislature, today a Tennessee banker and gentleman farmer. Under intense pressure from persons opposed to women suffrage, Burn cast the single and deciding vote giving suffrage to women through the Nineteenth Constitutional Amendment.

Do you worry about your financial future because of inflation and fluctuating purchasing power? And you don't know where to go for authoritative information? A Dartmouth expert has given considerable thought to this disturbing matter. The McCahan Foundation, created in 1955 by the American College of Life Underwriters, Bryn Mawr, Pa., which published The American Design by John Sloan Dickey, now offers VariableAnnuities and Separate Accounts by Roger A. Steinharter '52. In keeping with the fundamental purpose of the Foundation, "In Search of Trust About Man's Quest for Security," Mr. Steinharter has compiled an annotated bibliography outlining the pertinent literature on variables and separate accounts designed to combat the ravaging results of inflation on the financial security of individuals. The study runs to 83 pages of bibliographies with brief comments and elucidations, two pages of Authors Index, and four pages of Subject Index.

Edward R. Dewey, '17, President of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles and Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, in the June issue of Cycles discusses rhythmic cycles in the year-by-year Index of International War Battles, 600B.C.—A.D. 1957, as prepared and published by the late Prof. Raymond H. Wheeler of the University of Kansas. Professor Wheeler's project started in the early 1930'5, with a staff of more than 200 persons, as a search of all available literature for all references to climate and to human achievement in art, literature, music, and political history, including war, in all countries of the world, all on a year-by-year basis. The results of this research were recorded in a series of huge volumes deposited with the University of Kansas. Professor Dewey concludes that there is pattern in international conflict, an area hitherto thought to be patternless.