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...made for "better-prepared" students. But we seriously question whether such provisions should take the form of "multi-difficulty" lower level Gen Ed courses as the Report suggests. Instead of trying to accommodate all types of students on the lower level, wouldn't it be much simpler to exempt students with demonstrated preparedness from basic Gen Ed courses in the areas of their greatest strength and allow them to take more sophisticated upper level courses instead...
...Republicans cried chicken. CBS Chief Frank Stanton called it a "disturbing step backward in the progressive effort toward a better-informed public." NBC's Robert Sarnoff invited Johnson and Goldwater to appear back to back, or even face to face, on Meet the Press, which is exempt from the equal-time provision since it is a regularly scheduled interview show. Goldwater accepted. At week's end Johnson had yet to reply...
Assuming he escapes that Waterloo, the pool possessor's next problem is a century-old precedent that property owners may be liable for dangerous activity, such as flooding, that takes place on their land and affects adjacent land. The pool owner is exempt only if he can blame a third party or an act of God. Under "nuisance law." which amply covers swimming pools, the neighbors may also sue or enjoin the poolster from all sorts of annoyances-glaring lights, noisy swimmers, noxious chlorine, and bug-breeding stagnant water...
...have far more influence than Keynes & Co. could ever have dreamed of [June 26]," Lord Keynes stated in 1935: "The ideas of economists and political philosophers are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual...
...Seaboard Air Line Railroad. The ICC is considering 20 other proposed mergers, of which six are big. The Justice Department has raised serious objection to only one, the link-up between the nation's two largest railroads, the Pennsylvania and the New York Central. But the railroads are exempt from antitrust laws, and the ICC has the last word on mergers...