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...14th session of Radcliffe's Publishing Procedures course closed last week with a presentation of the six magazines the 50 enrolled students had edited and designed. These fascinating but hypothetical publications were the projects of a week-long workshop in magazine design climaxing a six-week session of lectures, field trips, and a workshop of production...
Checkout & Checkup. Superintendent of Schools John J. Theobald, on a six-week Ford Foundation tour of European schools, hurriedly beached his gondola in Venice after a summons by Wagner, returned to send a 35-page questionnaire to all 860 principals, asking for itemization of urgent repairs. No fewer than 845 replied. Among their beefs...
...Last week a report to the U.N. Trusteeship Council made the U.S. embarrassment more acute. Back from a six-week tour of the islands, a four-nation (Bolivia, Belgium, Britain, India) committee was full of criticism of U.S. policies and performance. The U.S., charged the committee, has 1) done little to encourage economic development, 2) failed to revive island industries launched by the Japanese during their prewar tenure, 3) allowed school buildings to run down and neglected to provide enough secondary education, 4) proved reluctant to place Micronesians in top administrative posts. In short, the U.N. mission called...
Fortnight ago, in sprawling Maharashtra state, local officials decided to celebrate All-India Family Planning Day, Dec. 18, by completing the sterilization of 15,000 male volunteers in a single six-week period. Last week Maharashtra's Public Health Minister Homi Taleyarkhan reported that with the campaign less than half over, 7,000 sterilizations had already been performed...
...fastened to the spine with metal hooks. The rods are readily accepted by the body, says Dr. Harrington, and need never be removed. Affixed to the spine just beneath the back muscles, they cause no pain, do not restrict physical activity. After ten days in the hospital and a six-week convalescent period, says Surgeon Harrington, youngsters equipped with rods can run, swim, play tennis. The only restriction: no contact sports such as football...