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...outgrowth of last year's "Radical Critiques of American Society" course. The new course will consider three of America's central social problems, imperialism, race and labor. Each section will select facets of the three problems to consider. A fourth topic will be an overview of theory...
Caesar's Wife. The House code, on the other hand, was devoted more to extolling virtue than to ensuring it. An outgrowth of general indignation generated by ousted Congressman Adam Clayton Powell's propensity for public sin, it suggests that House members conduct themselves "in a manner which shall reflect creditably" on the House, and that a Representative accept no compensation for using his influence improperly. It called for a review of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, under which no one has been convicted since its passage in 1925. It also asked members to list firms in which...
...Natural Outgrowth. The company, which made its first computer in 1959 as a natural outgrowth of its business in office machines, has so far sold or leased $100 million worth of smaller series computers, including 55 NCR 590s bought by the Pentagon to travel around South Viet Nam in G.I. trucks keeping track of spare parts. NCR has also marketed $200 million worth of a secondgeneration computer known as the NCR 315, including one $16 million order from Japan's Sumitomo Bank, Ltd., which accounts for NCR's largest order...
...federation is, in effect, an outgrowth of a larger movement within the church to give priests a more meaningful voice in the ecclesiastical structure. One conspicuous sign of this has been the creation in the past two years of priests' senates. In 1965, the Second Vatican Council decreed that each diocese should establish "a group or senate of priests to give effective assistance to the bishop in his government of the diocese." This was a rather radi cal advance, and there was some doubt that the senates would have any effective voice. But already senates have been...
WGBX, a new outgrowth of WGBX Channel 2, the educational television station in Boston, solved two problems at once with The Most Dangerous Game. The element of audience participation changed TV watching from a completely passive to a partially active pastime. And the use of the mass media permits the public to take part in a game simulation without paying the usual high costs...