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Said a Republican member of the Select Committee after Knowland announced his decision...
...nation tap its increasing wealth for more public schools? The Citizens Commission takes no sides: either state or federal revenues "can provide the increase in the amounts required to educate 48 million children in 1965. The problem is to select the best [combination] to meet education requirements . . . at the local level without federal control...
With more people coming to the colleges, he adds, there will naturally be a concurrent increase in the number of highly intelligent applicants. With more top-rank people to choose from, admissions policy could become much more select...
What the trio, under the direction of Enders, had done was select a well-known method of cultivating chicken pox viruses and apply that method to isolating and growing the polio virus. But they had made one important change over previous attempts to grow the virus in a test-tube. It was what Zinsser would have called that last "step across to accomplished discovery." Unlike their predecessors, they had used human skin tissue-instead of nerve tissue-on which to grow the disease. Original as their final step may have been, the three associates regard their success...
...undoubtedly true that the specific dollar where administrative expense ends and charity begins can often not be clearly defined. If the drive is to avoid the perennial student complaint that "most of the charity you give goes to pay for the staff's salaries," however, it must select a stopping point which is reasonable for most charities. The Combined Charities can truthfully counter that any arbitrary line will exclude many fine causes. Yet a line must be drawn somewhere, and setting up well-defined criteria to start with is the fairest and most unbiased way to do this...