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Deftly Gonzalez needled his state-proud colleagues for borrowing the first of the bills-which would, in effect, permit school boards to assign pupils on a racial basis-from "lesser states." "Texas had to import foreign-made provisions from such backward entities as South Carolina," he cried. "Why is it that you are so poverty-stricken?" And time and again he warned his colleagues of the ultimate perils of segregation: "It may be some can chloroform their conscience. But if we fear long enough,, we hate, and if we hate long enough, we fight...
...around the world," said Publisher Thomson, 63, a plump, pink-cheeked, bustling Scottish-descended Toronto native who owns 20 dailies in Canada (almost one-fourth of Canada's English-language dailies) as well as Florida's St. Petersburg Independent (circ. 25,820). This summer he plans to assign staff correspondents to major international news centers, and will start publishing a special airmail edition that will be flown to world capitals and reach European newsstands only a few hours after publication. Thomson hopes the Scotsman will thus become the conservative, north-of-the-border counterpart of the Manchester Guardian...
...Eisenhower's exclusive club toter because the Augusta National pro decided he was "too decrepit," got a longdistance vote of confidence from Spokane. Members of the Spokane Athletic Round Table invited Cemetery to caddy in their national seniors open (for men over 50), were still undecided whether to assign him to Ike's brother Edgar (68) or Augusta Pro Ed Dudley (55), the man who fired...
...being the most prominent of the drama groups, would set up a kind of master calendar on which the various companies could mark their production nights, there might be more cooperation and less coincidence. Of course it is impossible to assign each production a solo, unrivaled date since some dates (after hour exams, for instance) draw bigger audiences than others, and there are periods when performers can't afford time away from their studies. But certainly some means of smoothing out the peaks and lows of the theatrical cycle, such as a big calendar accessible to all groups, hanging...
Although tutorial may achieve all of these ends in theory, it rarely approaches them in pracice. Instead, it tends to be a academic facade concealing indifference to the majority of students, a device with which departments can support impoverished graduate students and assign material which does not fit neatly into regular courses. Few students or tutors regard tutorial as an important part of their academic program; instead, most have an unstated agreement to ignore this additional load whenever it grows burdensome...