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Immigrant. In Houston, an apologetic culprit brought into the police station on a minor offense explained with winning sincerity that he hadn't been in the U.S. very long: his home was in Louisiana...
Columnist Marquis Childs, who does not often scold the Truman Administration, had an acid suggestion for the Attorney General: "If Clark looks around suddenly at a Cabinet meeting, he is likely to find a culprit or two within arm's length. Two fundamental errors of the Truman Administration contributed to the price spiral. One was the repeal of the excess-profits tax. The other was . . . the encouragement of labor in demanding additional...
...being in history's junk yard? Italy's witty ex-Premier Francesco Nitti named a couple of safe scapegoats: Christopher Columbus and Niccolo Machiavelli. Machiavelli, Nitti explained, had "made us Italians out as men who are always ready to lie," Columbus was an even bigger culprit: his "indiscretion," Nitti claimed, had "shifted the axis of the world to the West," and Italy had been off the beam ever since...
Rumbling. Who was the culprit? Not the mine management which had allowed deadly quantities of coal dust to gather in the tunnels at Centralia No. 5. Neither was it Robert M. Medill, the cynical, hard-drinking director of the Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals. Medill had sought political contributions from mine owners. He had refused to listen to an inspector who had pleaded that the Centralia mine be closed as a deathtrap. Medill resigned in a hurry-but Lewis showed no interest in him. He was after bigger game...
Where, then, is that cry, the cry for tutorial that is apparently there for the asking? The culprit is apathy--faculty apathy that blocks any planning for tutorial or any real effort to expand it, student apathy that keeps the pressure of opinion dormant. Until indifference is met and routed, the future of the tutorial system and the education that goes with it will remain discouragingly black...