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Another councillor declared that he didn't "attach too much importance to sponsorship" of the group and said that he thought it could continue successfully as a private organization. Praising Vorenberg's own work, this councillor said that the most important thing was "to have somebody who has the talent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Members React Cautiously On Sponsoring Civil Rights Group | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

"This Goldwater ideology, the thing he called conservatism was beaten," cried Kansas' outgoing Republican Governor John Anderson, who did not stand for reelection. "It lost in every state. In the South, prejudice voted, not his philosophy, and in Arizona they voted hometown. These Goldwater people have got to roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: In There Fighting | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

So Dahlman, 21, dropped out of New York City's Wagner College this fall and began to devote full time to the pari-mutuel teaching machines on the oval campus of Yonkers Raceway. His discriminating bets on the trotters soon put him $15,000 ahead, surely enough to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Success on the Oval Campus | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

A character in Albert Camus' The Plague devised a strategy for cheating death by making life seem to drag on as long as possible: he did tedious things on purpose, like listening to lectures in an unfamiliar language or lining up at the box office for theater tickets and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Petrified Nature | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

Among the 102-page report's other recommendations are that undergraduates be required to take more science courses than they are now, and that they be allowed to study subjects in greater depth. Sweeping administrative reforms, covering such questions as the amount of teaching time each Department should devote to...

Author: By Martin S. Levine, | Title: Faculty Will Consider Doty's Proposals Today | 10/20/1964 | See Source »

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