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UNITED NATIONS In a set speech straight from the Communist handbook, Soviet Delegate Pavel Shakhov declared in the U.N. that "brutal" British colonizers have methodically oppressed and exploited the "indigenous inhabitants" of Mauritius, the Seychelles and St. Helena. Actually, replied Britain's Cecil Edward King last week, the situation "is even worse than the Soviet delegate realizes...
...York Times has thus published an Election Handbook, which contains between its paper (and therefore cheap) covers a cogent summary of information relevant to the forthcoming election. The book is not meant for Harvard government majors, perhaps not even for the most impenetrable science types. It is meants for the average voter who, alas, probably won't read it. Nevertheless, the Election Handbook is a valuable public service...
Unavoidably, events render parts of a book like this irrelevant. Moreover, the Handbook is written in the same ungainly prose ("The Kennedy political problems will be treated as having passed with him") that clutters the daily Times...
According to the handbook for new members of PBK, election means "recognition of intellectual capacities well employed, especially in the acquiring of an education in the liberal arts and sciences." Instructions to the electors interpert "intellectual capacities well employed" more narrowly as "scholarship." "Good character" is also relevant (PBK presumably excludes outright criminals), but the phrase "achievement in extracurricular activities" is an anathema...
...philosophy should be awarded tenure on the basis of his merit. Two weeks ago, the same committee upheld by a 4-1 vote the faculty position that Sayre does not have legal tenure. They based their decision on a sliding scale of tenure as outlined in the Faculty Handbook...