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...Problem Kids. Backed by the Albany Board of Education, Becker has proved that tough but fair discipline is a remarkable impetus to learning. There are no broken windows at Schuyler High School, and rarely is disrespect shown to teachers. None of the students are permitted to sport Beatle haircuts or far-out clothes. Becker tells them sim ply: "The other students are not in school to look at you. You're here to learn." Schuyler High will even accept potential reform-school candidates. One such student was recommended for enrollment by the Albany police after he had stolen...
...Minister, Morarji Desai, 71, who is also Deputy Prime Minister, will encourage foreign businessmen to invest in India. Plan ning Minister Asoka Mehta, 55, intends to cut back on bureaucratic state control of business, and took on the added portfolio of chemicals and petroleum in order to give new impetus to the drive to build more artificial-fertilizer plants in India. Commerce Minister Dinesh Singh, 41, intends to push Indian sales to Western Europe...
Given new impetus by a council that in many ways answered the Reformation demands upon it, Roman Catholicism frequently seems like a ship that has lost its rudder in high seas: almost every week a priest defects and marries, a theologian challenges defined dogma, new evidence appears that laymen are putting aside authority-given moral guidance to take a stand, Luther-like, as conscience dictates...
...there can be no hesitation in calling it an outrage or a tragedy. But war has its own logic. Once it starts, it is bound to go its way--out of the control of the engaged. A succession of brutalities and a subsequent accumulation of hostile feelings increases the impetus to war, thereby leading into unexpected expansion...
Although the foreign aid bill did not show much original thinking or impetus for real change, it was politically attractive--no mean trick in the face of a budget-conscious new Congress. By fancy juggling and his usual pre-shrinking techniques Johnson added $400 million in development loans yet still managed to keep aid appropriations at last year's level--$3.2 billion. The President shifted payments to Laos, Thailand and NATO to the military budget; and held out loans totalling more than $3 million to international organizations like the Asian Development Bank until he could judge more closely the temper...