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...high fees we do must be that we do a superb job of teaching." Toward that end, Earlham got a $20,000 grant from the Danforth Foundation of St. Louis, under which Earlham teachers can invite experts in their fields to sit in their classrooms, observe their techniques and assess their abilities...
While a bewildering array of soldiers and statesmen still strove to sort things out in the Dominican Republic (see THE HEMISPHERE), the two foremost foreign policy spokesmen in the U.S.-President Johnson and Secretary of State Dean Rusk-paused to assess the situation...
...gone into President Johnson's earlier decision to order the pause. The U.S. had already blasted just about every worthwhile military target south of the populous Hanoi-Haiphong complex, and was running out of bridges and barracks to bomb. The lull gave U.S. reconnaissance planes a chance to assess the damage and size up new targets-and according to Communist broadcasts, the recon planes were busy indeed, some of them probing points only twelve miles from Hanoi. Perhaps most important, the lull gave Johnson a chance to show such critics as Canada's Prime Minister Lester Pearson...
Aghast, the government aims to pinpoint responsibility and possibly assess damages. As for the Bebawis, they face a hot Roman summer in jail and may not get a new trial until October. Not that most Italians mind; they loved the first trial and are delighted at the prospect of a second...
Indeed, housing is but one example of the planners' indifference to the poor and their problems. Only four pages of the General Plan discuss the "disadvantaged," while ten assess transportation problems and another ten present an essentially trivial bibliography. Despite the glib slogans--"planning for people," "urban renewal without human renewal cannot work"--the problems of poverty and discrimination rest in a stratosphere of generality. The New Boston's designers outline a series of thoroughly acceptable and thoroughly unoriginal goals: "Break down discriminatory barriers that waste talent, inhibit motivation, limit educational achievement..." or "Eliminate adult illiteracy." Very nice. Very necessary...