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...even on my darkest days imagine that a quarter of the students and possibly many more were so negative toward my lectures that they learned nothing from them," wrote Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Tests and lecturer on Education...
...Sentencing. The Detroit court has also proved its enlightenment in one of the law's darkest areas: the wildly disparate sentences that different judges hand out for the same offense (TIME, Dec. 31, 1965). Chief Judge Theodore Levin organized "a sentencing council" five years ago. Made up of three judges and three probation officers, the council meets weekly to review every trial judge's forthcoming sentences. Each judge proposes his sentence, and the others suggest increases or decreases or shifts in emphasis. No judge is required to accept any of the advice. But all act together, and they...
Gardner ("Mike") Cowles was traveling through darkest Africa last February when he bumped into an old acquaintance: U.S. Ambassador to Kenya William Attwood. Seizing the opportunity, Cowles offered Attwood a job as editorial director of Cowles publications. Attwood was hesitant about accepting; he had scored a distinct success in Kenya, as he had earlier in Guinea, by practicing a quiet, cheerful diplomacy, by never forcing his views on Africans and by always listening to theirs. He had even survived a bad bout of polio and returned to the job as zestful as ever...
...Only the day before, a Canadian Pacific DC-8 crashed while landing in heavy fog at Tokyo Airport, killing the ten-member crew and all but eight of the 62 passengers. This total of 188 in less than 24 hours made it, as far as anyone could remember, the darkest single day in the history of commercial aviation...
...American concept of the hero by making his anti-hero a round-shouldered, wide-hipped urban Jew helpless to handle his neighbors, his job or even his flirtatious wife ("I saw a kiss. I saw tongues"). Jews, of course, have no priority on black humor. One of its darkest stars, Terry Southern, a Texas gentile, has been operating successfully in the black for years with ham-handed satires on pornography (Candy), nuclear war (Dr. Strangelove) and money and morality (The Magic Christian...