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...Elder Committee has in fact urged a move in precisely the wrong direction, and the Masters have wisely rejected its recommendations. There remains, unfortunately, the possibility that the Masters will still curtail the present system of interviews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wrong Way | 2/26/1964 | See Source »

...preserve the Aryan race, Adolf Hitler did not stop with the extermination of the Jews. In 1940, Hitler appointed Dr. Werner Heyde, a pale, bespectacled SS major and former Wiirzburg University Medicine lecturer, supervisor of "Operation Mercy Killing." Until courageous protests from German church leaders forced the Nazis to curtail the program in 1941, Heyde and a staff of "selectors" in his euthanasia task force killed more than 100,000 mental defectives, including many who were only senile or epileptic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Cheating Justice | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...University will take no action this year either to extend or curtail parietals, Dean Monro has told the HCUA...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: University Will Not Alter Parietal Hours This Year | 2/12/1964 | See Source »

...President's penalties could involve legislation ordering companies to pay workers double or even triple time for extra hours worked; but no serious consideration is expected from Congress this year. Nonetheless, U.S. labor unions are dead earnest about curbing overtime on their own. In Detroit, proposals to curtail overtime will be one of the key issues that Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers will take up at the bargaining table this year. The steel industry's labor-management human relations committee is already grappling with the question, and the Rubber Workers, the Cement Masons, the Machinists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: The Debate About Overtime | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

President Johnson's order freezing federal employment may severely curtail the government summer employment program, according to a Washington spokesman for the Civil Service Commission...

Author: By Ronald J. Greene, | Title: LBJ Order May Cost Students Jobs | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

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