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...failures, however, have not been complete: while helping to destroy the myth that all school boards and trustees were negligent in failing to institute revised schedules, they provided a far clearer understanding of the potential, as well as of the inherent difficulties, of trying to modify the academic year...
...Western skies temporarily looked clearer, the storm clouds were still piling up in the East. In New Delhi last week the Indian government put out a map showing in detail the extensive areas on its side of the Himalayas (including some 6,000 sq. mi. of Pakistan) that the Red Chinese claim and, in some cases, have seized by force of arms. The eight SEATO nations declared anew their determination to aid the kingdom of Laos against invasion from Communist North Viet Nam, and in Laos itself members of the U.N. fact-finding mission trying to get into the frontier...
...both individual and group conferences, the subjects discuss the factors behind delinquency and other topics that lead them toward a clearer understanding of themselves. Boys get into trouble, one subject stated, "because they have no money and no one will give them any money so they go out and steal and so it ends up into trouble and they get put in jail." Another subject noted, "In my short period attending here so far, I have never since I can remember, felt greater mentally...
...relations between students at the college and New Haven residents. "City police should not use clubs on students or enter student rooms except to stop crime," the commission urged, and particular care should be taken in choosing the policemen who make foot patrols in the university area. In addition, clearer distinction should be made between the jurisdiction of the city police and that of the campus...
...influences of religion on international issues seem clearer. Whereas 67 per cent of all the questionnaires favored total war over surrender to the Soviet Union, 87 per cent of the Catholics were for bombs rather than capitulation. This is linked to the fact that almost half the Catholics (of all varieties) feel religious beliefs are central in the conflict between East and West, compared with about 25 per cent for the College as a whole...