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Woods might be right about the moles. But there were also other troubles. Defense-housing legislation is inadequate. While $600 million was appropriated for FHA loans which private builders could use, Congress made little provision for direct public housing if the private builders should balk, have trouble getting mortgage money or materials. The legislation provided only $25 million for federal housing projects. During World War II, one such project alone, at Vancouver, Wash., cost $26 million...
...editorial argues that the proposal to transfer the functions of the Dean's Office to the Houses is undesirable for two reasons. First, "the faculty disapproved of the group tutorial part of it (the Report on Advising) and balked even harder at the idea of having tutorial in the five large fields taken from the hands of the departments and put in charge of House deans". The facts are that far from disapproving of the Report's recommendations for group tutorial the Faculty formally approved of them in principle last spring without a dissenting vote. A Faculty committee...
...even if Yale alumni held exactly Buckley's views, they still would most likely balk at his formula for teaching these views. Buckley says "Truth will not of itself dispel error; therefore truth must be championed and promulgated on every level and at every opportunity." He proposes to do this by splitting education into teaching and research: Teaching teaches what is Right; research finds out what is Right. Teachers who teach Wrong get fired. Buckley does not want research fettered. It is only in the classroom that the teacher should be limited to teaching what Buckley and others think...
...amending the Boston charter to allow clearing the ballot of Curley's name, the State Legislature could make short work of this strategy. But the House of Representatives, full of Curley Democrats, will balk. Curley made sure of additional support on Beacon Hill by praising Dever and the state Democrats to the limit in his "withdrawal" announcement...
...fifth inning, Lee Guittar reached on an error by Russ Johnson. A wild pitch advanced him to second and an infield out moved him to third. As Ward would up, Guittar broke for the plate, and umpire Raph Sandborn ruled that Ward committed a balk, allowing Guittar to score. Guittar slid into catcher Charlie Walsh on this play and broke the receiver's hand...