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Foreign policy views are not the primary criteria even in the selection of presidential candidates, Bundy said, despite the fact that international questions are most closely related to the survival of our civilization...
...school board's defense: the board had turned down all 30 Negro students now seeking admission to white schools not on grounds of race-presumably because that hardly sits with the Supreme Court's 1954-55 decisions-but on one or more of five wholly nonracial criteria that varied from the barely reasonable to the ridiculous...
That left five Negroes to go, and these, said the school board, failed to meet the last criterion-"adaptability to new situations." Straightfaced, Arlington School Board Superintendent Ray E. Reid testified that the five Negroes sure had "outstanding qualities" to get through the first four criteria, but that was just why they ought not to be admitted to white schools. Reid's reasoning: in white schools these young Negro leaders "would get feelings of inferiority" and would not be such good leaders. At last, under questioning, Reid admitted that the five criteria had not been applied to Arlington...
Jekyll & Hyde. Although Diane's firm, Lawson & Lawson, is the only one of its kind, other agents, mostly women, work the same beat for specific shows. And they stick to much the same criteria. "The ideal daytime quiz couple," says one of Diane's competitors, "comes from Indiana. The boy is 26, the girl 24; they are white and Protestant and they have two kids. Of course, on the intellectual evening shows, like Twenty-One and The $64,000 Question, they can't be so choosy -they have to have some brains...
...Overhaul of the Army's training program, increasing the training period from nine months plus a year's probation to two years' training and a year's probation. ¶ Revision of criteria for the 600-man teaching staff; in addition to good character, familiarity with the Army and the Bible, teachers will henceforth be required to know how to teach. ¶ New emphasis on spiritual counseling and instruction in Christianity. ¶ Modernization of the Salvationists' "religious language" and increased use of the printed word, radio and television...