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...about 10%. Result: this year the school fund raised $15.5 million in interest for its member districts. Voters are happy because the earnings keep property tax increases down. Nor are the school revenues tied up for long periods of time: districts can write checks on the fund. Says Linford Moyer, executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials: "The fund's advantage is that we have broadened the possibilities of return on investments without jeopardizing safety...
Seymour Melman, industrial engineering professor at Columbia, has proposed that teachers give A's to all their students to avoid such choices. His Columbia colleague, Henry Linford, chemical engineering professor, retorted that "You can't botch up our educational system just to circumvent a Government order," and Dean David Truman calls overgrading a "violation of intellectual trust." Some students concede that they will choose easy courses to keep their grades high. An advertisement in the University of Michigan Daily urged coeds to muff their exams so the men could rank higher...
...associate editors are Paul Evans, executive editor of the Mitchell Daily Republic in South Dakota where he covers a lot of territory; and Ernest Linford who was raised on a Wyoming ranch and is editor of the Laramie Republican Boomerang. Bill Nye founded this paper and named it for his pet mule. Linford left the mule home but brought...
Last month India's Chief Justice Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer declared invalid the emergency statute under which Mohandas K. Gandhi and 8,000 lesser All-India Congress leaders had been detained since last August. The Raj was unruffled. Technically the Viceroy accepted the judgment, but he refused to release edition of the newspaper Critica was suppressed for carrying an attack on Castillo and an appeal for speed in realizing hemisphere cooperation...
From his bench in New Delhi last week India's Chief Justice Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer handed down a bombshell decision: Mohandas K. Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and 8,000 other Congress party leaders were being illegally detained by the Viceroy's Government. Reason: Rule No. 26, of the Defence of India Act, under which the Congress leaders were arrested and have been held without trial since last August, was invalid because "it went beyond the powers which the Legislature thought fit to confer on the Central Government...