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...part of a major change in library rules which will accompany the new filing system, the teaching fellows will have to pay regular fines if they keep books beyond the close of six-month periods ending October 30 and April 30. They will also be fined if they do not return requested books after two weeks...
...referendum, civilian politicians were at first inclined to grumble at Park's compromise. But in fact, they needed that much time to organize their parties for an election campaign. The civilians knew who their most potent opponent would be: General Park himself, who no doubt would use the six-month postponement to build up a grass-roots political organization strong enough to help him switch from fatigues to flannels and take office as a civilian President...
...consultation and observation of patients. They may even bring their own patients along for study. Back home, they are expected to set aside one half-day a week for patients with emotional problems. Twenty of them now have an average of 18 psychiatric patients each. And for a six-month course in family-practice psychiatry scheduled to begin July 1, it is the doctors, for a change, who are lined up on a waiting list and not the patients...
...meet the "crisis of fatherhood." Venezuela's Mental Health League offers a six-month course in child care and home life, and the Catholic Church now plans night schools in literacy and parenthood for at least 75,000 young couples. And Venezuelan judges are getting tough with delinquent fathers. Under new laws passed by Congress, fathers guilty of nonsupport face a sobering choice: voluntary support of their offspring, a jail sentence, or a forcible child-care deduction from their weekly wages...
...aspects of his job as a seagoing fighting man, let me point out that for years the Marine Corps has been producing professionally sound and inspired young officers-in just six months of intensive training. I see no reason that the academy cannot do the same with a six-month, postgraduate, professional cram course...