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Students who choose Biology 2, a half course, or who have received advanced placement in freshman courses would be required to take other courses to reach the required total of seven...
Some U.S. welfare groups have actually come to grips with the half-caste problem. In the past ten years, 5,670 mixed-blood children have been adopted by families in the U.S. through such groups as the Holt Adoption Program, the National Catholic Welfare Conference and the Child Placement Service. But the vast majority of these children are the offspring of white G.I.s. Finding foster parents for Negro-fathered children is much harder. With that in mind, the Pearl S. Buck Foundation began operating in Korea just last month. Its initial hopes are modest: to provide funds directly to mothers...
This year, probably no one beats the Crimson at pole-vaulting. Steve Schonover bursts into varsity track as an advanced-placement sophomore; he soared to 14' 4 1/2" at Niskayuna High in New York and he should vault 14 feet Saturday despite a sore leg. That is still a generous 1-4 inch above the previous mark set by Truman Ford...
...Shuttlesworth lost a challenge to Alabama's pupil-placement law when the Supreme Court declared the law constitutional, even though it seemed designed to perpetuate segregation...
Ford said he considered "the loosening up of the senior year" to be one of the "most attractive" features of the plan. He compared its effect to that of the advanced-placement program, which allows students to do specialized work if they decide to remain at Harvard for a fourth year...