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Unselect Schools Sir: You state that Harold Wilson is the first British Prime Minister who is a " 'grammar-school boy'-meaning he did not attend one of the country's select private schools [Oct. 23]." The first part of this statement may be correct, though it should be explained what the British grammar school is. It is very broadly equivalent to an American high school, but entry is confined to pupils reaching a certain academic standard. Neither Lloyd George nor Ramsay MacDonald attended a "select private school." Going back farther into history, you will probably find that...
...Bonn, De Gaulle's unassailably correct stand on grain prices may give Ludwig Erhard just the leverage he needs to reform his nation's inefficient agriculture. For while Germany economically is less dependent than France on the Common Market, politically and psychologically it is even more deeply committed to European unity...
...industry spends $35 billion a year on quality control-almost all of it to detect and correct mistakes after they occur. If Z.D. can continue to motivate people to better craftsmanship, it could save much of that...
...Pound's data had been correct, they would have contradicted the Principle of Equivalence and hence destroyed the universal applicability of the theory of relativity. But refinement in equipment removed the discrepancy...
Zinn's book is an unbalanced glorification of SNCC, and if you dislike its idealistic attitudes, you will dislike the book. Zinn admits its failings ("It exasperates its friends almost as often as it harrasses its enemies") without dwelling on them. His implicit point, and I think it is correct, is that organizational failures aside, SNCC has done some remarkable things and has created some unusual thinking in three years...