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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Despite repeated Chinese rejections in recent years, the U.S. should reiterate its willingness to exchange journalists, artists, scientists and scholars with China...
...best place to keep a little girl on a holiday, but Kyoko Ono, 5, daughter of Artist Yoko Ono, is delighted with the idea. She breezed into Montreal with her parents after her father, Beatle John Lennon, was refused entry into the United States because of a recent marijuana conviction in London. While the elder Lennons were spending ten days in bed as a "lie-in for peace," Kyoko put on a show of her own-hopping periodically from the bed, Teddy bear firmly in hand, grabbing handfuls of rose petals and throwing them at newsmen and visitors. "She digs...
Last week those questions were painfully dramatized at City College of New York, a longtime symbol of salvation for bright, needy students. In recent years, rising applications have forced tuition-free C.C.N.Y. to raise its admission standards ever higher. Meantime, poor Negroes and Puerto Ricans (now a majority in New York's public schools) have filled the slum high schools that once helped to feed the college. Lacking the stimulus of middle-class whites, who have moved elsewhere, the feeder schools have deteriorated. Despite huge enrollments, some of them now graduate as few as 15 college-qualified students...
Relevant Bull. The free university movement is based on familiar complaints, most of them summarized in a petition circulated by a group of teaching fellows during Harvard's recent student strike. Said the petition, which was signed by more than a thousand Harvard students: "Professors are hired for their research achievements, not their teaching ability. Almost the only educational technique employed by senior faculty members is the lecture, involving no communication or concern. Grades are awarded for effective mimicry. The university seems not to care for the self-understanding, self-respect or independent thought of its students...
...borrowed a sum of money from Jews dies before the debt has been repaid, his heir shall pay no interest on the debt for so long as he remains under age." The legislation introduced in Parliament will repeal ten other clauses that have either gone unenforced in recent years or have been superseded by new laws. Among them is one that ordered the removal of all weirs (dams) from the Thames and other rivers, and a second that restricts the King's right to seize the lands of debtors. The provision assuring that "the Church of England shall...