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...Leading the attack is a generation of young Kenya urbanites who look upon the dowry as institutionalized blackmail. In Nairobi, the angry young men have formed a group called the Kenya Dowry Reformation Movement, and are flooding Nairobi pa pers with letters demanding an end. "The Attorney General should abolish this old and unwanted practice," wrote one reformer. Another called for a general protest strike...
Some conferees were not impressed. "We have two monsters now: College Entrance Examinations and Merit Scholarship tests," protested St. Paul School Superintendent Donald Dunnan. "They are keeping the young from developing anything except intellectual conformity." The U.S., insisted former Sarah Lawrence President Harold Taylor, should "abolish all this testing and concentrate on teaching...
...garment workers' Justice, the clothing workers' Advance-carry lengthy analyses of legislation before Congress and think pieces on such top ics as automation and narcotics. They are almost all unabashedly Democratic in their politics, and they tend to embark simultaneously on the same liberal campaigns: to abolish right-to-work laws, for instance, or to ban lie-detector tests from employment procedure. But the labor press no longer paints issues entirely in black and white, says Gordon Cole, editor of the Machinist (circ. 868,000) who once worked for the Wall Street Journal. "Now they present...
Greenberg asserted that Title VI authorities should not approve so-called "freedom of choice" plans, under which school officials abolish formal school zones and tell Negroes that they can attend any school they wish. "In these cases," he said, "community pressure and the momentum of segregation will keep things entirely of almost entirely as they have been...
...appointments system where reform would benefit the History Department and Harvard. First, because the proportion of Harvard-trained people on the tenured staff (2/3) is so high, the students may get a one-sided view of the discipline. The simplest means of opening the doors would be to abolish the rank of instructor; only in this way will bright young Ph.D.'s from other institutions be induced to come to Harvard as junior faculty members and enter the race for tenure. The presence of the word "professor" in one's title apparently becomes very important...