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Seldom in this century has legislation so disturbed Britain as the government's bill to restrict immigration from Commonwealth countries. Opponents of the measure range from the left-wing New Statesman, which has damned its "contemptuous" disregard of Commonwealth citizens' traditional right of free entry into Britain, to the Tory Times, which feared for the already fragile fabric of the Commonwealth. Last week, when the bill came up for a two-day debate in Parliament, the staid old House of Commons was plunged into such violent turmoil that the chair had to suspend a session for the first...
Fretting about U.S. industry's "export of jobs" to lower-wage foreign lands, leaders of two major U.S. unions-the Machinists and the Steelworkers-last week urged Congress to restrict corporate expansion abroad. Next day, at his press conference. President Kennedy used their plea to press his own drive for powers to negotiate sweepingly lower reciprocal tariffs. His argument: if tariff walls stay high, U.S. companies will continue to elude them by setting up branches abroad. "This," said the President, "is a matter of importance to United States workers...
...through its monopoly position takes advantage of students," charged Dunster House Committee Chairman William E. Balley '62. "There is no way to control monopolies but to compete with them or restrict them altogether," he said...
Waiting for that winter to fall once again and restrict their activities, scientists are losing no time in making the most of Antarctica's pleasant-for Antarctica-weather. Among their current projects...
...grader, harried by having to read and grade as many as a hundred papers within a single week, must restrict his comment to a few marginal notes and a perfunctory summary at the end. The summary often goes something like this: "Able job. Well-organized and effectively argued. Especially strong in the middle section." Given such vague, abstract criticism, it is no wonder that students look forward only to learning their grades when they go to pick up their papers. What can anybody learn from such comments? Close critical comment is valuable, especially when made available to the student while...