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...creation of new programs in agriculture, engineering and business administration and the reordering of present university programs are recommended as a means of closing the wide gap that exists between the needs of Vietnam and the purposes manifested by public higher education. The careful selection of students for professional programs, the opportunity to select careers wisely, and the adjusting of numbers of students to program needs in the country are the outcomes expected of of the centralization of undergraduate study. Combined with attention to individual problems, the university should by these means reduce drastically the very high percentage of students...
...order to ensure a cross-section of groups, the top nine candidates in the voting win positions on the City Council, and the top six join the School Committee. The new City Council then elects the Cambridge mayor and vice-mayor from within its own group. They also select a City Manager, who is subject to Council removal at any time...
...became a regular only after the hotel at its own expense installed a custom-built, old-fashioned bathtub complete with bronze legs, just like the one in his London town house. Says Palais General Manager Roger Boltz: "As long as there are people who want to live in a select and secluded environment or achieve visible social status-and this means until the end of mankind-places like ours have a function to fill. They will never disappear...
Another kind of battle is beginning in South Viet Nam. It is not a battle of bullets but of ballots. Next Sept. 3, the country's 5.2 million eligible voters will be able to select their first President since Ngo Dinh Diem, who was assassinated in 1963. In a fractious, war-racked country, a weak victor could prove disastrous. A sensible leader, by establishing a popularly based government, could do much to assure stability, security and a democratic destiny for South Viet...
...union officers also could not understand why Harvard was not willing to accept the results of the December 7, 1966, merger vote as sign of the intent of the BGMA's membership, nor could they understand why Harvard was unwilling to hold its own election to select a bargaining agent for the BGMA...