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Facing the Beatles. Czech universities recently injected a bit of democracy into their academic bureaucracy by permitting faculty members to elect their principals and deans. Students are being offered an "advisory" role in shaping university policy. At the lower-school level, teachers have had difficulty interesting teen-agers in a "civics" course. One headmaster, Vladimir Rerucha, complained over Radio Prague that "it is really not so easy to face a 15-year-old wearing a checked jacket and a big red badge inscribed 'The Beatles' and talk to him about Communist ethics...
...commitment. Though condemned by many party regulars as a loner and an opportunist who has used the G.O.P. but has no true allegiance to it, Romney has thus indicated his willingness to contend for the nomination from within the fold. Also, he has promised to go all out to elect Robert Griffin, the Republican candidate for Senator from Michigan...
...year's end. Duncan accused Hatfield of parroting the anti-war line of Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, thus adding to "a discordant symphony of dissension and disagreement that can immobilize this country." Despite Morse's warning that "it's going to be difficult to elect any Democrat who runs on a war platform," Duncan is supported by Neuberger and most other leading Democrats...
Members of the Harvard Dramatic Club voted down a proposal yesterday that would have enabled them to elect one, or possibly two, members of an expanded executive committee. The executive committee selects plays and directors for Loeb mainstage productions...
Died. Metropolitan Antony Bashir, 67, Archbishop of the 110,000-member Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church of New York and North America, a vigorous anti-Communist who in 1958, while in Damascus for the election of a new Patriarch, exposed a Soviet plot to seat its own Communist-oriented candidate by bribing some delegates with cash, gifts and free trips to Moscow, then led the fight to elect non-Red Patriarch Theodosius VI; of cancer; in Boston...