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Monro also foresaw increased interest in college careers when the secondary schools prod their promising students toward the national recognition of a Merit Scholarship...
...year hard-working George Craig compiled a record of accomplishment, as Legion commanders' records go. He launched the Legion's "Tide for Toys" campaign for shipping toys to children in foreign lands, inaugurated the organization's national "Divine Guidance" program, helped to prod several mental health organizations into forming the National Mental Health Association, and got more than 50 national organizations to join the Legion in an "All American Conference" to fight Communism. Says Craig: "I was in this before it was popular to do it . . . I was fighting Communists long before Bill Jenner thought about...
LACMA also rides herd on the program itself, ever since the first show brought in a flood of complaints that a resuscitation method used on a newborn baby was obsolete. LACMA acts both as a censor and a prod to Medic. A show dealing with homosexuality was "tabled" by the doctors, but they have lifted some TV taboos, e.g., in a film about an unwed mother, NBC balked when the doctor-as he normally would-asked the girl when her last period had occurred. LACMA insisted that the word stay...
Energize & Win. Nixon's main task is to prod the Republican organization into action. But he also has given some sort of consistent pattern to a shapeless G.O.P. campaign. The pattern, as it emerged last week: Communism...
...regime did keep Investigating Magistrate Raffaele Sepe at work on the case. Last week, after secretly questioning some 500 witnesses, Sepe turned over the last of 16,000 pages of evidence to the government prosecutor. Nothing happened. After three days' waiting, Magistrate Sepe took an unusual step to prod higher authorities to action: he pointed his finger at four prominent figures by the simple expedient of canceling their passports. The four: Pianist Piero Piccioni, Ugo Montagna, ex-Police Chief Saverio Polito and, to the surprise of almost everyone, Prince Maurice of Hesse, 28-year-old grandson of Italy...