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...least some good news to justify his buoyant mood. Exclusion made him eligible for a $15,000 pension-half his regular congressional salary. Better yet, the New York Court of Appeals, highest in the state, lopped $100,000 off the outstanding libel judgment against him and ordered a lower court to reconsider another part of the judgment on technical grounds. This left him owing only some $23,000, also opened the way for removal of the contempt citations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: No Home in the House | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

Decline of Discipline. The hemorrhage was grave. The Congress Party lost 96 seats in the lower house of Parliament, held on to only a 17-seat majority in the 521-seat body. It lost control of five of India's 17 states, and all of the major cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Strength in Weakness | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

Park admits that there are conspicuous problems, including corruption at lower levels of government. Unemployment amounts to 7% of the country's labor force, and another 25% are underemployed. Some working women earn as little as 50? a day, and per-capita income last year was only $123, compared with Taiwan's $225 and Japan's $740, the two highest in Asia. But starvation has been almost completely eliminated, the literacy rate has been lifted to 90%, and the traditional spring question-enough rice or revolution?-is a bitter memory of the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Hope in the Hermit Kingdom | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...which he found that only eight of the 55 high schools he had studied met his "minimum criteria" for acceptable quality. In a new survey of 2,024 schools, Conant reports that 40.3% now give courses in calculus, 49.5% teach the new physics, 92% offer remedial classes for lower-ability students, 99% offer music. Even more significant, about half of the schools have a 20-to-1 student-teacher ratio-a standard that Conant considers basic. On the other hand, he finds that only 11% of the schools make use of television and that more than 60% are too small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Schools: Equalizing Opportunity | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

Steve Schoonover was fourth in the pole vault at 14 ft. 6 in., a full foot lower than the winning jump. And Captain Wayne Andersen finished fourth in the 60-yard dash. He was edged out by little Army sophomore, Van Evans, who whipped him at West Point in December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trackmen Place Tenth in IC4A's; Baker Sets Harvard 2-Mile Mark | 3/6/1967 | See Source »

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