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...stock gains. As Clark told it, people were always trying to force money on him. and he had a hard time pushing it away. In one near deal, an old pal named Bernard Lowe came to Clark with a newborn song called Butterfly and an offer to assign 25% of the publisher's royalties to Click Corp.. one of Clark's publishing outfits. "I pointed out that this was unnecessary," Clark explained to the wondering Congressmen. "Lowe insisted ... I again said that it was unnecessary." But royola flowed just the same; after Clark's jockeying made...
...both the respect and the gratitude of the educators themselves. Says Dr. Francis S. Chase, dean of the University of Chicago graduate school of education: "Education reporting is 100% better today than it was even five years ago. One of the important differences is that the papers tend to assign good people to education stories now." Perhaps the healthiest sign of progress is that the newspapers recognize the need for even more improvement in the field...
...strong alternative: rest nuclear sovereignty not in individual nations but in the NATO command. This would satisfy the strong national pressure to get defenses out from under direct control of the U.S. It would enable the NATO command to assign each nation to the development of particular nuclear weapons that fit each role in the overall NATO defense picture-e.g., France might specialize in tactical airborne nuclear weapons, West Germany in field weapons...
...civil rights proposals attempt to struggle out of hearings before the House Rules Committee. One hundred and seventy-six Democrats have signed a discharge petition to bring a civil rights bill to the floor. As of Monday, only thirty Republicans had signed. A Civil Rights Commission plan to assign Federal Registrars to voting districts which practice discrimination in registering Negroes has been called constitutional by Professor Freund of the Law School and Texas Law School Professor Charles Alan Wright, thus countering the doubts President Eisenhower recently expressed as to its legality. But because of traditional Southern Democrat opposition, this plan...
...Research Project building, locat- ed on Massachusetts Ave., near the Law School also serves as a training center for interested visitors from foreign countries. Both Ford and Rockefeller Foundations assign Fellows to study research being conducted by the Project for periods extending from three to six months. Private groups also sponsor visitors. According to Mrs. Gilboy, the growing number of these students is beginning to tax facilities of the Project. Both working space and staff assistance are available to the Foundation-sponsored Fellows...