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...manifestation of "Schwartzism," a phenomenon she named after Abba P. Schwartz, former director of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs. Schwartz, a proponent of more liberal passport policies, resigned three weeks ago after he got wind of a Knight-encouraged and Rusk-approved plan to abolish his bureau. And now that he has been phased out of the State Department, a little creeping "Schwartzism" might be a fitting legacy...
...satiric swipes at militant protestniks, world changers and plain and assorted knuckleheads. Obviously Hersey has tuned his fine ear to the contemporary campus (he finished the book shortly before his appointment as master of Yale's Pierson College). His very funny student demonstration against majors in the curriculum (ABOLISH THE MAJOR: INTELLECTUAL IRON MAIDEN!) is straight out of today's headlines (TIME, Feb. 25), and his Professor Gutwillig is a marvelously pointed caricature of a preposterously ineffectual intellectual...
Radcliffe will abolish its present system of sit-down meals with student waitresses beginning next September, Marjorie L. Russ, Radcliffe dietician, announced yesterday...
State Senator Verda Welcome, the only Negro in Maryland's upper house, immediately introduced a bill to abolish the miscegenation statute, but her repealer was given little chance in a legislature still dominated by rural, Dixie-oriented lawmakers. The Maryland law and similar statutes in 17 other states (all Southern or border states except Wyoming) may be killed only when miscegenation is considered squarely by the Supreme Court, which has thus far avoided the constitutional question involved. As for Meki and Jo Ann, they were married last week in the Washington (Episcopal) Cathedral before driving to their new home...
...Kentucky last week, the state leg slature overwhelmingly defeated a bill to abolish capital punishment; in Tennessee, a Memphis judge sentenced five Negroes to electrocution for raping a white girl. At the same time, the Justice Department announced an alltime low in U.S. executions: in 1965, only seven persons were put to death throughout the country...