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...compliance with the court order is all the more remarkable in view of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, by which the U.S. Office of Education was empowered to withhold federal funds from segregated school districts. Some 1,500 districts in the eleven states did in fact desegregate under this prod. Last week the U.S. Civil Rights Commission reported nonetheless that the great majority of Southern school districts have managed to evade integration while still adhering to the letter of federal desegregation guidelines...
Swallowing some of the same austerity, the government announced plans to cut the demand for construction labor by reducing public building by $168 million during the 1966-67 fiscal year. To prod British industry into selling more abroad, the government devised a new system of capital-investment grants and formed a commission to promote mergers among companies that are too small to compete on an international scale. If these tonics fail, Whitehall will prescribe stronger medicine. "I repeat," said Wilson, "that whatever measures are needed to strengthen our balance of payments and keep sterling strong will be taken...
...student-athletes," on the grounds that there is no distinction between athletes and other students in the Ivies, is petty and irrelevent. After all, the NCAA is an athletic association and can concern itself only with athletes. The intent of the NCAA is pure enough; it merely wants to prod the academic stragglers among its members. And being a national body, the NCAA has no way to accomplish this goal except through blanket legislation for all its members...
...problems of high employment, high growth and high hopes. As the U.S. enters what shapes up as the sixth straight year of expansion, its economic strategists confess rather cheerily that they have just about reached the outer limits of economic knowledge. They have proved that they can prod, goad and inspire a rich and free nation to climb to nearly full employment and unprecedented prosperity. The job of maintaining expansion without inflation will require not only their present skills but new ones as well. Perhaps the U.S. needs another, more modern Keynes to grapple with the growing pains, a specialist...
...that they may have little effect on hostile department chairmen if they remain unpublished. Chances are that the recommendations--and the will of the student body--will never be incorporated into departmental policy unless the recommendations are widely known. Only by publishing its reports can the HPC hope to prod the departments toward needed reforms...