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...Appropriations Committee, noting that the flights had cost a total of $4,000,000, threatened to cut off Government financing. U.S. critics also pointed out that the airlift discriminated against other Latin Americans who might want to emigrate, since the Cubans are given preference under the terms of the quota system. Canceling the airlift will likely bring an increase in derring-do attempts to cross the Florida Straits, which 14,684 Cuban adventurers have navigated since 1959 in everything from motorboats to makeshift rafts...
...other major exception to the rules fell in the lap of the U.S. steel industry. On orders from the White House, foreign steel became the only major industrial product that will be subject to both an import quota and an import tax surcharge. Sellers of nearly all other foreign products whose importation is formally restricted, notably oil, will not have to pay the 10% surcharge. When asked to explain the ruling, which amounts to double protection for domestic steel, COLC Executive Director Arnold Weber pointed out that the original White House explanation of the import surcharge did not contain...
...issue with the current admissions policy, which imposes an unfair and rigid quota of one woman per four men. Harvard could easily achieve an approximate one-to-one ratio over the next four years," one Radcliffe senior said yesterday...
...Hornblower's career, from an impecunious "boyhood in Kent to a peaceful death at 80 in 1857-which came, appropriately, while the by then viscount was reading Gibbon-is circumstantial to a fault. The book bristles with references to "new sources" of information, as well as a full quota of those "we can fairly assumes" peculiar to Victorian biography. It comes fully provided, too, with an index, footnotes, useful explanatory charts of naval engagements, appendices, tables of consanguinity, illustration showing various Hornblower residences and a bibliography of books on Sir Horatio, all, as it happens, written by an author...
...lugubrious subject of U.S. public education. Everything Herndon observes takes place in the "Spanish Main" intermediate school in "Tierra Firma," a thinly disguised middle-class suburb of San Francisco, where Herndon has taught for years. He appears to have tried every kind of pedagogical method, from applying a full quota of "reading" workbooks in a backward class to running a mini-free school where kids could come and go as they pleased. The results, though touched by humor and humanity, are disheartening...