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...Rafferty won is a kind of organizational short circuit. California's state board of education, which sets policy, is appointed by the Governor. The state superintendent, who carries out board policy, is elected. Historically, the superintendent has been a dutiful administrator, but the setup also allows him to reflect popular feelings about education. Californians are unhappy about their schools' real or imagined proneness to progressivism, and the election was a chance to air the issues...
That four-letter word kept echoing in Scranton's ears. The regular Republican organization went right ahead and backed a colorless party trooper for Governor. Ike was furious. He was quoted as calling it "a miserable ticket," a "goddam rotten setup." By now, the pressure was really on Scranton. He finally agreed to run for Governor-but only on the incredible condition that all 67 of the state's brawling county chairmen endorse him. To his vast surprise, they...
Behind-the-scenes organization is complex-to meet both legal and professional rules. The parent Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (a nonprofit but tax-paying setup) enrolls the members; it then contracts to pay Kaiser Foundation Hospitals (a charitable, non-tax-paying organization) a fixed fee per member per month for hospital care. It also contracts with one of four medical groups (associations of physicians) to provide medical and surgical services for a per capita fee. The hospitals run a research institute and a nursing school. The parent plan builds such facilities as clinics, which it leases to the medical groups...
...French will be taught this year in Lake Forest. Ill. With Harvard's help, Capuchino High School in San Bruno, Calif., will develop a new physics course incorporating history, philosophy and the cultural impact of science. In Beverly Hills, which is starting a twelve-year foreign language setup, the high school even boasts two summer campuses in Spain and Austria...
Credits & Debits. U.S. military advisers still complain that poor communications and the highly centralized command setup of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem retard quick response to Viet Cong attacks. But slowly, the tactics taught by the U.S. advisers-most notably the use of helicopters-have begun to show results. The Viet Cong is now suffering nearly twice as many casualties as the South Vietnamese and the amount of captured Viet Cong equipment is rising. Viet Cong defections are on the increase, and Viet Cong terror tactics against the Montagnards (mountain tribesmen), who have been indifferent...