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Kennedy must realize that America can't materially aid the Poles and concentrate on devising imaginative ways to spend the U.S. reserves of Polish currency. The best opportunities--especially in the most free-wheeling of People's Democracries--lie in the realm of cultural exchange. Exchange of books, artists, exhibits and, if possible, students, would do more to extend Western influence in Poland than any economic aid program...
Most observers agree that the initial act of abolishing spring practice in 1952, later entered in the formal Ivy League code of 1954, was more a move to provide student freedom than to check professionalism and overemphasis of football. The abolition later entered the realm of "football sanity," which today is the area from which the Ivy Policy Committee, composed of the eight presidents, removes itself only to be accused of defeating its own purpose by inspiring football professionalism...
...present figure of 11 1/2 courses completed with A or B is too low. A B-average in all 16 1/2 courses, without the superfluous requirement of two additional fields, would provide adequate safeguards for the College's "realm of the intellect." The C.E.P. proposal has one other fault. It would bind a person to an Honors program in the senior year, including a thesis, unless the student opts for a degree in General Studies earlier. An individual should gain an exposure to thesis research--perhaps a term--before making an irrevocable decision...
Where this happy medium will be found is most likely in the realm of education and training of semi-skilled personnel. The developing nations are aiming above all at self-sufficiency, and they prefer aid programs that will train natives to do jobs to those that bring in foreigners to handle every phase of an operation. American college graduates are capable of instructing native workers in certain simple skills, and can also teach English, mathematics and the sciences in the secondary schools (the great source of semi-skilled manpower). Graduates of agricultural or engineering schools can be particularly useful...
...lowly art of bookkeeping, King Saud of Saudi Arabia is no match for his more cultivated younger brother, the lean and able Crown Prince Feisal. Two years ago, after Saud's munificent handouts to himself and some 300 assorted princes of the realm had brought even oil-rich Saudi Arabia deeply into debt, an angry family council forced the King to hand over the effective reins of government to Feisal. Under the guidance of experts on loan from the International Monetary Fund, Feisal proceeded to balance the budget by severe maneuvers, even slashing the allowances of pampered princelings...