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...separate petitions to the Civil Aeronautics Board, United, TWA, American and Eastern Air Lines asked permission to curtail use of the almost industry-wide "Discover America" excursion fares. Generally, such fares offer a 25% discount from regular round-trip jet coach rates, while requiring travelers to return no sooner than the following calendar week and no later than 30 days after they start. The fare cannot be used during two peak travel times: noon to midnight Fridays and noon Sundays to noon Mondays...
...university) has a special capacity to transcend its social constraints because it embodies a tradi- tion of intellectual diversity and articulate criticism; and because of all human functions, thought is the most difficult to curtail. But while the university is uniquely promising, it is also uniquely promising, it is also uniquely threatened by the pressures of ideology to which we have already referred. The university is in constant tension between its ideal critical capacity, and the powers of secular service that delimit its hope...
...legislative history shows that both the President and Congress wished to curtail graduate and occupational deferments as much as possible and to ensure that no deferment resulted in total exemption from the draft. Therefore the new Act states that...
...dampening of free in-quiry and expression may affect faculty members and administrative officers as well as students. It is therefore in the interests of the entire academic community to protect vigilantly its traditions of free debate and investigation by safeguarding students and their records from pressures that may curtail their liberties. America cannot afford a recurrence of the incursions made on intellectual freedom...
Alarming Shortage. Despite Dr. Rouse's attitude, the A.M.A. last week reversed a number of positions it had long held. In 1933, the association urged medical schools to curtail enrollments for fear that they would produce too many doctors. Subsequently, as warnings multiplied of an impending crisis in the supply of doctors, the A.M.A. kept insisting that there was no cause for concern. Last week, the board of trustees did an about-face. In a report using words that it had once rejected vehemently, it declared that the shortage of doctors is reaching "alarming proportions," and called...