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Cancer. Federal authorities will crack down on the University's computation laboratory as the nerve-center of a nation-wide numbers racket. The Boston Post will print a series of twenty-six editorials criticising the University, after which John Fox will trade the paper for the Saturday Evening Post. "Better hours," Fox will explain. "I'm tired of being battered from pillow to Post...
...force. Here the President must be prepared to back noble words with deeds and dollars. Just as important as the prevention of subversion abroad, there must be a cessation of the subversion at home that masquerades under the name of security. The Republican Administration must put aside the numbers racket in security dismissals and all the other-devices by which it could create an impression that loyalty is the prerogative of one party. As part of this, there must be a cessation of the unrelenting warfare being conducted against our foreign service. Bipartisanship is not a goal in itself. Foreign...
Australia is a large island-continent with a small population of 8,750,000, all of whom seem to become rabid tennis fans as soon as they can hold a racket. Last week Australia's tennis bugs were having nightmares. Reason: their star player and main hope for keeping the Davis Cup for the fifth straight year, blond, bullet-serving Lew Hoad, was playing slipshod and lazy tennis. Clearly, it was a national crisis which involved everybody from Lew Hoad's mother to Prime Minister Robert Menzies...
...college scholarships. But the school's guidance counselor was disgusted: "We didn't need a single dollar." Why had so much been offered to such a well-to-do few? The fact is, says President John Perkins of the University of Delaware, "something akin to a scholarship racket has evolved." In their blind competition for promising freshmen, many colleges and universities are unwittingly giving aid to students well able to pay their...
...Enough Holler. To stave off courtroom boredom, newsmen covered each other. A columnist for the Cleveland Press, which is devoting at least two full pages a day to the trial, reported that Scripps-Howard Correspondent Andrew Tully, wheezing and coughing with a cold, made such a racket that Dr. Sam's brother, Stephen, turned to him in annoyance and said: "Drop dead." Replied Tully: "I can't. I've got to stay around for the hanging...