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Last week the Faculty began sketching the outlines of a sound General Education Program. In four important votes, it chose to retain three key facets of the present program and to improve on one other...
...married woman for the first time will be able to take a job or open a bank account without her husband's permission. She will have the legal right to help decide where her children can go to school, to veto his plans to sell her property, and retain her own possessions if there is a divorce...
...ECUADOR is under military rule, and likely to stay that way for a while. "Power," says Rear Admiral Ramon Castro Jijón, chief of the junta, "does not lure us. Only the circumstances retain us." In the 19 months since the military toppled erratic, hard-drinking Carlos Julio Arosemena, Ecuador's progress-minded soldiers have ground out hundreds of decrees organizing a civil service, setting up a land reform, revising the tax system. New industry (paint, textiles, detergents) is flowing into Quito and Guayaquil. In the highlands, where half of Ecuador's 4,700,000 people...
...other hand, Americans may well retain their distaste for totalitarianism as well as for dictatorships--for conditions in Albania and China as well as for those in Angola and the Union of South Africa. It is an extremely difficult policy, that of reconciling the concern for social justice of the radicals with the sense of power-realities of the old-line liberals, but it has one advantage: The Chinese are unlikely to prove any more popular in their attempts to run other people's countries than have the Americans. Then, in the struggle for world begemony, the vital ingredient...
Villanova rates a slight edge because of its record of fine showings in this meet and its experience on the boards. Tom Sullivan, who won the mile last year in 4:11.8, is a defending champion for the Wildcats and is favored to retain his title against a field that includes Georgetown's Joe Lynch and Army's Jim Warner...