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...Greek consulate described it as a brief, unofficial visit to New York "without fanfare or publicity" by King Constantine, 27, and Queen Anne-Marie, 21, prior to more formal stops in Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec, Montreal and finally Washington to confer with President Johnson. But nothing ever happens without fanfare or publicity when Actress Melina Mercouri gets involved. The Greek star, relieved of her citizenship and property because of her criticism of Greece's military junta, learned that the royal couple planned to lunch with Secretary-General U Thant. Planting herself like an avenging Athena in front...
...programs are created, ways must be found to eliminate inefficiencies in the use of student and faculty resources within the university structures. The centralization of all student registration within each university and beginning the careers of all students in a common academic program prior to their pursuit of more specilaized training are, in the view of the survey team, necessary reforms in the ordering of existing and new programs. All students should be admitted to a balanced program of studies, including some electives, at the beginning of their university careers. One possible way to accomplish this is to combine...
...revolving door." New York police are arresting trollops at a rate that has increased by 73% in the past two years, and the number of repeaters rises in proportion. Of the 795 women arrested in midtown Manhattan in the first six months of this year, 67% had prior prostitution records; each girl averaged seven arrests. A revised state penal code will limit prostitution sentences to a mere 15 days, and so the revolving door will spin faster and faster...
...Senate" resolution, Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, declared that national commitments to foreign governments should result only from "affirmative action taken by the executive and legislative branches of the United States Government." Too often, said the Arkansas Democrat, the executive branch has sent troops to countries without prior commitments or proper consultation with the Senate. "This resolution," he explained, "seeks to recover in some degree the constitutional role of the Senate in the making of foreign policy-a role which the Senate itself has permitted to be obscured and diminished over the years...
Hippie-Type Wanderers. Prior to last summer, "our educational system was still something that had not changed its form since the Ch'ing dynasty and had traces of Soviet revisionism in it," declared Chen Pota at a Peking University lecture recently. Now, in line with Mao's doctrine of putting politics in command, the humanities faculties will use Mao's work as textbooks and the class struggle will be the main subject. Mao-think will even apply to the sciences; students are now revising some of the work previously done in mathematics, physics and foreign languages...