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Even more important, someone will have to decide exactly what a "pass" means. The College presently requires a minimum of eleven and a half C-'s for graduation. "Would a pass count as a C- or a D?" Norr asked...
...carefully avoided writing personal checks against it? Attacking O'Hare's testimony, Sonnett implied that he was a forger, brought in Handwriting Expert Charles Appel, who had testified in the Lindbergh kidnaping case, to show that a number of checks drawn on the ac count had not been signed by Dodd. The Senator himself, otherwise apathetic, was roused to his only really angry outburst of the week by his former bookkeeper. "Mr. O'Hare is a liar," he snapped. "It's as simple as that. He's a liar...
Besides, it was not as if the Fifth Republic had lost the election. Despite their unexpectedly poor showing, the Gaullists had still captured at least 244 of the Assembly's 487 seats, and could count on the support of a handful of Deputies who had won as independent moderates. De Gaulle's majority had been reduced to a minimum, but it was still very much intact. The opposition might be stronger, but it was still the minority. As in the previous Assembly, it could oppose the government but not replace it. "It's always the same verbalism...
Last month's plan is a step in the right direction, but more a political maneuver than a blueprint for the educational advancement of Boston's Negroes in the public schools. It is laudable that the School Committee is no longer refusing to count the number of Negroes in its schools and will begin to consider the effect of locating new schools and the redrawing of district lines on hastening the total integration of the city's educational system. More important, the settlement between the School Committee and the State Board should deprive Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, who fought...
Moll finds ASPAU so exciting "because practically every person we have here will count in the higher administration of an African nation." While noting that well over half of ASPAU scholars maintain grades in American institutions, Moll recounted the story of an African student who flunked out of a "not so competitive" Western university (he was one of only five per cent), returned home, and was immediately appointed his country's representative to the United Nations...