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...major difficulty is how to turn community participation into good education. One proposal advocates electing local school boards and then giving them wide powers over policy-making and personnel hiring in their districts. Another proposal would allow a community committee to select each school principal, while extending his authority. A third would elect district superintendents...
...fear that many of those about to be drafted are unlikely to possess sufficient political sophistication even to question the rhetoric of an emotional patriotism provided as the official justification for fighting in Vietnam. Those who select "alternative service" would merely be contriving an all too convenient solution for their own doubts without coming to terms with the real issues of conscription and the war. Delivered from their "dilemma," it seems likely that these few would be so comfortable performing "alternative service" that they would not "feel like" protesting or demonstrating further. Such persons would simply be exploiting the sacrifices...
Different Tack. Nonetheless, Dirksen is determined to enact a constitutional amendment that would overrule at least part of the one-man, one-vote doctrine by permitting the states to select one house of their legislatures on a basis other than population. Twice, his efforts to push such amendments through the Senate were defeated by seven votes. Now the Illinois Senator is off on a different tack...
...specifics of the Press's future are not clear. Even Wilson and the other officers of the Press have no idea who the President and Fellows will select as his successor. Another endless policy debate inside the Press is the question of paperbacks. It has long been the Press's policy to sell paperback rights to other publishers more able to distribute them and eager to pay good advances and royalties, contrary to other university Presses. Harvard's main reason for avoiding the lucrative paperback market is that it doesn't have a large enough staff to handle the extra...
...industrial-educational developments will eventually expand. The DPW faced the following choice: it could put the Belt along Brookline-Elm, through the heart of residential and commercial districts, and allow extra growing room for the businesses who will want to be close to NASA and M.I.T.; or, it could select Portland-Albany, closer to the current boundaries of the commercial and residential areas, and permit these sectors -- in which there is both good and bad housing, prospering and shaky businesses -- to work out their own future...