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Boots & Cable. Holder of the post ever since it was created four years ago, Chicago-born Mansfield, 44, is a onetime investigative staff member of congressional committees who bears the rank of Assistant Secretary of State, and is empowered to suspend almost any aid program. Thus Mansfield and his 24 fellow traveling inspectors are greeted on their journeys abroad with apprehensive cooperation, if not jubilation-further encouraged by the frequent assumption that the Inspector General is a relative of Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (he isn't). Mansfield and his operatives have tracked everything from 24 million bushels...
...rank-and-file participants must have thought the meeting helpful. Half the panels urged that similar sessions be held at local and state levels and that another national conference be held next year...
...students sat in not to force a substantive change in university policy but to bring about a suspension of the policy on rank until there was full discussion. At Chicago, as at many other universities, there is no provision for the expression and consideration of student opinion before policies are set. Normally, students are willing to remain unenfranchised and even uninformed, but they are morally outraged to find no sympathy for full discussion on an issue that so directly affects their nonacademic lives. Is it coercion for the unenfranchised to demonstrate for a full discussion (not even for a vote...
Soothing Fears. One reason for Thompson's widespread support among the assembly rank and file was his work on behalf of the most controversial item on the agenda: the Confession of 1967. First presented to the 1965 assembly, the new creed is intended to supplement the classic Westminster Confession of 1647. The aim was to draft a new creed that did not abrogate any previous statement of faith accepted by the church, including the Apostles' Creed, but merely supplied a new emphasis to traditional belief...
...ROTC during the freshman year. None of them, however, consider proctors generally anti-ROTC. "I would anticipate that a few proctors might talk down ROTC," says Harry P. Kerr '64, Faculty Advisor to ROTC, "but so far there is no real evidence of it. All we have is rank hearsay." At least seven of the thirty or more proctors have been in ROTC; these proctors tend to recommend the program if it adapts well to an individual case...