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...article explaining the excessive rate of failure of the male students of the University of Karachi, Pakistan as resulting from their being distracted by women students [Oct. 26] is a grotesque oversimplification of a serious problem. There are several reasons for the poor performance of the university students of Pakistan: 1) the British educational tradition, with its emphasis on cramming for a single major examination, 2) inadequate faculties, 3) language difficulties, 4) an obsessive concern with politics on the part of the students. When I was a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Karachi, I would plead with my students...
Beautiful Head. Twenty years ago, Trieste was second only to Genoa among Italian ports; today it is eighth. Trieste's maritime traffic has dropped 25% in the past two years, and rail traffic is less than half the 1957 rate. More than 17,000 Triestini (12% of the labor force) are unemployed, and the number of "disguised unemployed"-their livelihood provided by government make-work projects-is steadily increasing...
Under the Fifth Republic, French foreign policy--except in the colonial field--has been more concerned with form than with content. Charlemagne, having decided that loose talk of France as a second-rate power had gone far enough, served notice that henceforth France would be heard from in Western councils. France has been heard from, sure enough, but it has had distressingly little...
...France is a second-rate power--militarily, strategically, and economically--and most of the politicians of the Fourth Republic were ready to admit it, if only in unguarded moments. The French remain part of the "Big" four only through archaic convention, and through the conviction of some Western leaders that being on the right side in World War II is more important than physical power in computing diplomatic "size...
...Bach Society Orchestra played its first concert of the year with verve and discretion, though the fare offered was surprisingly light. Perhaps the orchestra's conductor, John Harbison, is thinking of the taxing problems he will face in preparing a Bach cantata for the next program. At any rate, the Haydn symphony (No. 8) performed on Sunday was charming, if slight, and an interesting example of a classical piece with baroque devices still hanging on. No. 8 is part symphony, part concerto grosso, employing a harpsichord and three solo strings; the solo'cello was played with particular suavity and grace...