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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...
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...
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...
...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...
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...