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...Russians' satellite. A study that committee did showed that 98 per cent of what they termed "bright" high school students who did not go to college were women. But the committee's final report mentioned nothing of this finding. "They suppressed it because they felt it would detract from the emphasis of getting more trained men. Nobody really expected women to use their education and minds for anything important," she said...
...think there is a remote possibility that Radcliffe will refuse to have anything to do with the Fund, but I'm sure they won't if it is a collective, united effort and if we don't detract from their regular fund-raising efforts," Fletcher added...
...gotten to be routine around here and they don't impress anybody. The activities of last week made up a legitimate and resounding demand for an immediate end to America's latest bungling overseas caper. The kind of stuff planned for next week will do nothing but detract from the impact of last week's march and veterans' action." For his part, the President at Thursday's news conference spoke respectfully of the demonstrators; there was none of last year's talk of "bums." But he reiterated, talking to Hanoi as much...
...current production of Iolanthe at Agassiz has managed to avoid all the pitfalls which usually detract from the play, and has created a marvelously worthwhile evening of theatre. The stage direction and the choreography have taken much of the usual pretentiousness out of the production, and the actors in general are good enough to carry the show through the weak spots...
While questions of free speech are important and should be debated in the universities, they should not, however, detract our attention from another, more important cause: ending the immoral, illegal war in Indochina and bringing peace to the long-suffering peoples of Southeast Asia...