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ARIZONA. Partly to prevent a Proposition 13-style proposal from getting onto the November ballot, the Arizona legislature has called for a special session to overhaul its state tax structure. Contends State Representative
William A. Lee set a North American record for babysitting this year, holding onto the post of acting chief of University police for 13 months before a University search committee named his permanent successor. The committee finally settled on Saul Chafin, former director of public safety at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst...
Seventy-eight per cent of the College's student body made it onto the dean's list--defined as standing in academic Groups I, II or III--last year. That figure compares to a 20-per-cent average in the '20s, and a 26-per-cent mean for the '30s. Officials attributed the rise to more liberal grading policies and increased competition, rather than any marked increase in undergraduate brainpower...
...explains. At first, however, the breadth of attention the plan received surprised him--when he first realized that the Harvard reforms had struck some sort of educational nerve. After that, as the waves of publicity grew, as the stories in the national papers stretched longer and edged their way onto the front page, they merely confirmed his belief in the importance of the task at hand...
...Congressman was confronted last week by an array of lobbyists and Congressmen who wanted to tack more money onto the budget resolution-for defense, for social service programs, for farm supports, for education, for veterans' benefits. To all of them, Giaimo had the same rejoinder: "It's time that we curb our appetites. If we're ever going to get control of the budget, this is the time...