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Another way to take a course that promises to be interesting, but not very easy, is to take it pass-fail. This could explain the popularity of the two Fine Arts courses on the list, Fine Arts 13, "Introduction to the History of Art," and Fine Arts 171r, "European and American Art of the Last 100 Years...
When should students be tested? Many states, realizing that students must have time for remedial work if they fail a competency exam, are studying programs that would test students from early elementary grades upward. Extended remedial programs, however, would clearly cost additional tax dollars which may not be available. Warns Paul Hubbard, executive secretary of the Alabama Education Association: "Without a commitment of funds, the real danger is that we'll give a test that will put the stamp of failure on thousands of Alabama young people, and no alternative course will be available...
Even if these arguments fail in Ways and Means, the Administration will get chances to repeat them as the bill goes before the full House and then the Senate. In the end, the outlook is that Congress will pass an economic-stimulus package of about the size and composition that Carter wants, with some changes that the President will regret -but not enough to veto the bill...
Instantly one is reminded of Fail Safe, Seven Days in May and various other pop-cult expressions of former doomsday fears. This sense of deja vu is enhanced by the casting of that archetypal movie star of the '50s, Burt Lancaster, as the leading trespasser on Government property. His SAC nemesis is Richard Widmark, still energizing his performances with a subtle suggestion of psychopathy. Playing the President's closest advisers are such good, gray actors as Melvyn Douglas, Joseph Gotten and Leif Erickson. It is all rather comforting to see these old companions in adventure from bygone matinees...
When they do fail, however, there will be fewer mouths to feed. Gandhi's government has waged a determined battle against the population problems that have long afflicted the nation of 600 million. While the technique employed by the government, permanent sterilization, is a questionable one, the government's success in performing the operation has been phenomenal. Since the emergency rule was declared, seven million Indians have undergone sterilization. Continued "successes" in this vein should help ease the pressures of an ever-climbing population growth rate...