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In Los Angeles last week, 12,000 delegates and wives at the 81st annual convention of the American Bar Association renewed a year-old resolve to devote their best efforts to the next and most important extension of legal justice: creating conditions for peace through developing the rule of law...
"No man can make any substantial savings from being President," said Herbert Clark Hoover, noting with approval that Dwight Eisenhower had signed a bill creating an annual $25,000 pension for ex-Presidents. "My situation differs from other, and probably future, former Presidents," explained the 31st U.S. President. "America provided...
Because the new Honors program is specifically designed "to improve the quality of the educational process," said Pusey, "it has seemed to us appropriate . . . to devote the Procter and Gamble gift to the development of this program."
A high school guidance counselor was talking about course selection to a junior with a straight-A record. "But certainly you don't want to carry more than three academic subjects your senior year?" she said. "You'll want to devote plenty of time to your school's activities."
When the national frenzy for production has abated, Galbraith says, the Government can devote itself to the frontiers of education, science, world development. But these sonorous generalizations are left in the air. Galbraith has found it easier to sketch the problem than provide the answers.