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Four of the seventeen institutions to reply thus far to the 1954 contract offer have refused to sign, presumably in protest against the security provisions. But the government is not attempting to dicate educational policy to the universities, according to Hartness. "We simply cannot have Communists or subversives in our educational programs and we cannot pay such people because of an act of Congress," Hartness said...
...great Swiss guide, tried it and perished, so Mamma wants to keep her son grounded, but the boy has alpenstocks in his blood. By the bottom of the first page, he has played hooky from his dishwashing job and is off clambering from rock to rock. Seventeen pages later, he has rescued the famous English climber, Captain Winter, and even Rudi's Uncle Franz must admit this is an auspicious beginning; in his 20 years as a professional guide, Franz grumbles, "for me, there has never been a rich Englishman waiting in a crevasse." Before the reader...
...Gasperi summed up: "Our notion of social justice is to raise the poorer classes to a higher standard of living, to narrow the difference between all classes, and, above all, to abolish the pauper class." It was the voting, however, that actually measured Amintore Fanfani's new power. Seventeen out of 18 new regional members of the National Party Council, and 34 out of 42 new members at large, are supporters of Fanfani's Democratic Initiative. These victories might have alarmed the party's conservative old guard, and even brought on the first tremors of a schism...
Four of the seventeen institutions to reply thus far to the 1954 contract offer have refused to sign, presumably in protest against the security provisions. But the government is not attempting to dictate educational policy to the universities, according to Hartness. "We simply cannot have Communists or subversives in our educational programs and we cannot pay such people because of an act of Congress," Hartness said...
...Komsomolskaya Pravda, another complained: "The soil begins to dry . . . The cause is lack of manpower. Things are managed the wrong way. Seventeen-year-old girls from the city who have never held a pitchfork in their hands work in the hayfields, while two husky kolkhoz fellows just sit by the stove, drink vodka and tell funny jokes...