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...positions of public trust. Ever since the benevolent protectorate of Woodrow Wilson, the fraternity has exerted great in fluence on public affairs. Scarcely a day goes by without the wires clattering out word of some stock market scare or Senatorial guffaw that is in direct response to a professorial edict. Only last week, a local critic noted with satisfaction that the Sunday literary supplements had depended "for years" on a stable of scholars who write weekly reviews...
Only one member of this barbershop quartet around the Square was not fazed by the talk of increased prices for tonsorial care. In fact, he was quite pleased by it all. Larry Cirella, of the Hotel Commander Barber Shop, is not affected by any Barbers Association edict because he runs a one-man business. His price to students and professors will stay the same. "I'll probably profit from the increase," added Cirella. "I am for the boys. My shop is like a home to them...
...schools-at least the sort to which visiting educators are taken-are planned for an elite class of students. In recent years only about 12% of Soviet students have graduated from the nation's ten-year (college prep) schools. And when Premier Khrushchev's learning-and-labor edict (TIME, Jan. 5) takes effect, the proportion probably will drop. In the U.S. 55% of the children who begin first grade go on to finish high school. American students most often are promoted automatically-although some schools, notably those in New York City, have begun flunking dullards again. In Russia...
Mild-mannered Tom Stanley reacted temperately. "This news." he said, "calls for cool heads, calm study and sound judgment." He promised to set up a commission to work toward a plan "in keeping with the edict of the court." Added he: "Views of leaders of both races will be invited." That was the last anyone ever heard of that sort of commission: under heavy pressure from Virginia's Southside politicians, Stanley finally named an all-white group headed by State "Senator Garland ("Peck") Gray, a leading Byrdman who was soon describing the Supreme Court's decision as "political...
...overseas Chinese colony, declared the gang wars to be a state emergency, and asserted the government's right to hold young gangsters up to two years without trial. Even the Communist party-liners in the Legislative Assembly made no objection to this stern remedy. Police, under the new edict, promptly rounded up 80 gangland suspects...