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In 1968 three farmers in New Glarus, Wis., refused to enroll their 14- and 15-year-old children in the local public high school. They were fined $5 each* for violating Wisconsin's compulsory-school-attendance law. A small case, but a crucial one. The three farmers-Jonas Yoder...
Died. Basil O'Connor, 80, founder of the March of Dimes; in Phoenix. Research into the cause and treatment of polio was a poorly financed, haphazard affair when O'Connor and his crippled law partner Franklin D. Roosevelt founded the Warm Springs, Ga., therapy center in 1927. This...
The Harvard basketball team moves into its final weekend of play with a two game schedule at the IAB Friday night, the Crimson hoopsters will. host Columbia's Lions. Saturday night, the Big Red of Cornell will lock horns with the Harvard cagers. Tip-off time for both games is...
In fact, many of the proposals that White House officials have so casually referred to as neo-isolationist no more deserve that description than does the Nixon Doctrine. First enunciated by the President at Guam in July 1969, it was a major effort to rethink U.S. world policy and lower...
In the light of its unusual history, C.U.N.Y. could have been expected to cope with this phenomenon better than almost any urban university in the country. The original City College of New York-then known as the Free Academy-was founded in 1847 to let "the children of the rich...