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Whereas in the past few years, the classes averaged about 1150 students, the University is planning to select a class of about only 950 freshman this year...
...cannot expect semieducated, insecure, bigoted people to select a representative better than themselves. If Mississippi were owned by another nation, we would declare it "underdeveloped," send it Point 4, and make vague promises of eventual self-determination...
...objective of the individuals who initiated and carried out this chain of events was to influence by political contribution the vote of a member of the U.S. Senate. The Select Committee condemns such activity. Lobbying is proper; contributions are proper-but they must not be combined for an ulterior purpose. This is a case of irresponsibility run riot...
...seven weeks since the President vetoed the gas bill because of an "arrogant" attempt at lobbying, a Senate Select Committee has been investigating the celebrated $2,500 "campaign contribution" to South Dakota's Republican Senator Francis Case (TIME, Feb. 20). Chaired by Georgia's painstaking Walter George, the committee has listened to 22 witnesses, taken 849 pages of testimony, spent $10,000-all the while following meticulously the Senate's instructions to see and hear no evil other than that bearing on the Case case. Last week the committee delivered itself of a weighty verdict that advanced...
...attract these high calibre college students, federal agencies could well duplicate the recruiting techniques of private industry. One such program is the "summer internship," a two-month period of orientation and responsible work for a select number of potential civil servants. Now offered in a handful of departments, the training program uses students as researchers and assistants to personnel and other administrative officers. The student is encouraged, but not expected, to return to the agency after graduation as a regular employee...