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...June 1958, therefore, the official headquarters of Veritas action moved from Boston to New York, where the Foundation was formed with three new officers as Trustees. Set up as an "educational group," the Foundation claims tax-exempt status, "in the opinion of counsel"--an opinion which has yet to be tested. As any member of either group will admit, the now inactive Committee and the new Foundation are one in spirit, and cooperate closely...
...firms instead of striking the whole industry at once as in the past. Such a pact would be similar to the profit-sharing pact signed by struck airlines last fall (TIME, Nov. 10), except that the airlines later got tentative approval from the Civil Aeronautics Board, which can exempt airlines from antitrust procedures...
Unfortunately for both Harvard and the General Education program, little is likely to come of Professor Murdock's recent expression of interest in Advanced Placement exams to exempt students from General Education courses. The compromise between "liberal education" and a modified distribution requirement which is the foundation of the General Education program is so uneasy that any attempt to disturb it will encounter opposition from some quarter, and any sort of exemption would require a revision of basic philosophy...
Last week in Geneva, U.S. Delegate James J. Wadsworth introduced the modification. This time, the U.S. proposed worldwide ban only on underwater and atmospheric blasts (from ground level up to 31 miles), which are principally responsible for fallout. Exempt from the ban: slight-fallout tests in outer space and underground. The ban would be enforced by eight to ten ground teams strategically located in Russia and by airplane air sampling when necessary. Coupled with this limitation on air and water tests was an invitation to Russia to join the U.S. in renewed underground tests. Object: to determine whether new detection...
...annual report to the faculty, delivered last week, Edward T. Wilcox, Director of Advanced Standing in Harvard College, suggested that "the relationship of Advanced Placement to General Education should be reconsidered." Wilcox pointed out that advanced placement concentrators in the Natural Sciences are exempt from the lower level Nat. Sci. requirement, but that advanced concentrators in the Humanities and Social Sciences still have to take an elementary Gen Ed course in their field...