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...think Harvard would do well to follow the lead of Chicago's Chancellor Hutchins and abolish emphasized football. John S. Winthrop...
Faced with a growing population of unmarried women, the village fathers of 17 villages in south-central Greece have written an open letter to Queen Frederika asking her to help abolish the dowry system altogether. "This system," wrote the rural elders, "has become a nightmare to families with daughters." Local swains were asking as much as $1,300 in British gold sovereigns* in addition to housefuls of fathers' furniture as the price of their devotion. "These fathers are now deeply in debt," said one patriarch...
...report, which cost the taxpayers $115,000 to produce. Reece thinks that the foundations waste billions of what he regards as public funds, i.e., if there were no tax-exempt foundations, some of the money given to them would be collected in taxes. But Reece does not want to abolish tax exemption for foundations. Apparently, he wants sharper legal distinctions between "good" research, which would be tax exempt, and "bad" research, which would not be. Who is the judge between good and bad research? Obviously, Brazilla Carroll Reece thinks he is qualified for an empirical foray into government thought control...
Following Georgia and South Carolina, Mississippi last week became the third state to approve the idea of abolishing public schools in order to get around the U.S. Supreme Court's decision against segregation. Out of 135,000 ballots cast, two out of three were in favor of a drastic constitutional amendment that will empower the legislature to: 1) abolish the public schools outright by a two-thirds vote; 2) pass a law by majority vote to enable counties and school districts to abolish their schools themselves; 3) sell, rent or lease school buildings to private corporations; 4) pay students...
...repealed the state law setting arbitrary prices at the doorstep and grocery counter, thereby sent prices down 2? a quart. Yet farmers are still collecting as much, or almost as much (10.9 to 10.2? a quart) as before, and consumption is headed up. In Florida, after voters failed to abolish their milk-control board, they brought pressure on the legislature for more consumer representatives on the board. In California, Safeway Stores, which preach firm prices for farmers and free competition among bottlers, are leading a campaign to throw out a state law that sets retail prices, thereby guarantee a profit...