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Mosley learned well as a bishop. But the gravest problem at Union is direction: younger faculty and bachelor-of-divinity students want less emphasis on studies, more on involvement in society. Postgraduate students, older faculty and directors want to concentrate on preserving Union's academic excellence. Whether that gap can be bridged successfully is doubtful, but Mosley seems more than willing to try. "The groups at Union fight hard for what they want," he says, "and they want contradictory things. But I rather like that sort of process, and I'm not unused...
Perhaps the gravest flaw in Nixon's argument was his conclusion that past desegregation policy "all too often has proved a tragically futile effort to achieve in the schools the kind of multiracial society which the adult community has failed to achieve for itself." It is indeed possible that too much has been made of the school's role. But Nixon himself observed that the school "is a place not only of learning but also of living-where a child's friendships center, where he learns to measure himself against others, to share, to compete, to cooperate...
Their letter-which appeared in yesterday's Boston Globe -said that "confirmation of Judge Carswell would place on the Supreme Court a man of, at very best, shaky commitment to constitutional principles which are of the gravest importance to our country...
...remained to be seen whether Arana was also prepared to address himself to the urgent problems of a country where 64% of its 5,100,000 people are illiterate and most farm land is held by the rich. Perhaps the gravest problem of all is the continued existence of a caste system that separates the Indian majority (slightly over 50%) from the "Ladino" class, which consists of whites, mixed-bloods, and those Indians who have adopted the speech and manners of the Spanish ruling group. "In Guatemala, the Indian is only a part of the scenery, like the 33 volcanoes...
Pregnant Brides. Guttmacher insisted that his intention was not to whitewash the Pill but "to place this matter in proper perspective." The Pill, he declared, is "a prophylaxis against one of the gravest sociomedical illnesses-unwanted pregnancy." Experts estimate, he said, that from 200,000 to 1,000,000 abortions are performed in the U.S. each year, with a death rate of 100 per 100,000 illegal abortions performed by non-medical operators. At least one out of six U.S. brides is pregnant when married, and among teen-age brides, one out of two. No fewer than 300,000 illegitimate...