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...does not form an organic work. A tank rumbles through the empty streets at no time in particular. Does it suggest the militaristic, secular power which has supplanted the absolute comfort of religion? Or perhaps it represents the phallic preoccupation of the woman who watches. Either way, its indiscriminate placement seems to reflect the work of a Waring Blender rather than an artist...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: The Silence | 3/17/1964 | See Source »

...Sarah T. Hughes, the Texas federal judge who swore in Lyndon Johnson as President, "and they're still leary of women marrying and having children." But the most frequent excuse is that clients would not have confidence in a woman lawyer. To overcome this, says Mrs. Carolyn Heine, placement director for the University of Southern California Law School, "the woman must have grades, personality, and a little of that magic savvy of women everywhere who can convince men to do what they don't know is good for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lawyers: The Perils of Portia | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

...also suggested that offering upper classmen's rules to potential AP students might present an "unhelpful temptation" to those students who had not decided whether to take advanced placement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A.P. Sophomores Get Freshman Sign-Outs; Board of Hall Dropped | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...placement examination in Romance languages will probably be broadened next year to test listening and perhaps speaking ability as well as reading and writing, Dwight LeM. Bolinger, coordinator of Romance language instruction, disclosed last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Test May Be Required In Languages | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...committee of course chairman in Romance languages, which recommended on Tuesday to enlarge the scope of the placement test, also suggested that the test be given at least four times a year, and that all students upon first entering courses in the Romance languages be required to take the examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Test May Be Required In Languages | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

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