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...39th since the days when Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson personally handled the 200 applications made by Americans each year. He is Edward J. Brenner, 40, a reserved, rugged patent attorney and engineer for Esso, who will need all his own inventiveness to keep from foundering in a morass of words, charts and pictures...
...Hindu majority and its 1,000,000 Moslems to the boiling point. Tens of thousands sleep on the streets or in abandoned sewer pipes and gutters are clogged with garbage, cow dung and human excrement; the water is polluted, epidemics frequent, poverty rampant, and unemployment endemic. In this morass of 6,500,000 people, the Hindu refugees' Moslem-atrocity stories spread like an infection. Inevitably, Calcutta's Hindus retaliated...
...York City Superintendent Calvin Gross [Nov. 15] appears to be a laser beam cutting into the Stygian morass called American education. If this is really true, I may be coaxed into returning to the classroom firing line as a teacher...
...into an extravaganza, which is what would have resulted if all of Shaw's directions had been followed exactly. Even if these excessive directions were an intentional part of his parody, it is wise to modify them; otherwise no Caesar--not even the real one--could survive amid the morass of spectacle...
Marvelous Morass. The ways that other colleges try to meet the new demands are at first glance mutually contradictory. To preserve liberal learning, Amherst still requires all freshmen to take the same three basic courses. Toward the same end, Vassar and Princeton make no specific requirements. Because they took college courses in high school, 150 of Harvard's freshmen enter as full-fledged sophomores, but Harvard tries to talk them into staying a full four years on the grounds that they need time to grow...