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...spite of what some critics may say, the solution lies not in the abolition of the fraternity system, but in the pressure of public opinion on the national organizations to force their chapters to use only the long-established formal rituals and not replace or supplement them with local juvenile pranks and potential murders...
...expressed it through Press Secretary James Hagerty: "The situation is not collective bargaining, which is the instrument open to a free people in major economic disputes. This seems to be getting down more and more to a trial of strength between two groups with the American public the greatest loser. I might add the President has no intention of letting the American people be the greatest loser...
Beyond that, Khrushchev said often and emphatically that he wanted to reduce the percentage of the Soviet gross national product now devoted to military projects (about 25%, as compared to about 10% in the U.S.) and convert it to consumer production. The U.S. officials pictured Khrushchev's frequent public claims about soon catching up with the U.S. in industrial and agricultural production as mere window dressing. In his more private moments, Khrushchev was portrayed as realizing that any such parity will be a long time in coming, can only be achieved by cutting down on military projects in favor...
Until teachers work for a full year, they will have some difficulty in getting a salary remotely related to either their usefulness or their traning. True, full-year work will not keep teachingpay high for it seems impossible to sustain high public pay scales, but it would bring wages to levels from which realistic pay could be maintained...
...Exeter group, sees summer sessions, rather than the full-year school, as the coming trend. He explains that the difficulties of expanding a summer session are far less than those of creating an entirely new curriculum, and points to the National Science Foundation-supported summer sessions in public secondary schools to prove that there are possibilities outside of colleges. Even in schools where there is no selectivity in general admissions, special summer sessions are often restricted to the especially intelligent...