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Adventurous Students. Only four years ago, Wayne was a city-run college (founded in 1868) that focused largely on training Detroit's schoolteachers. But ever since it got too big for the city to support, state-run Wayne has steadily lifted its sights. By all the evidence, it now ranks academically above Michigan State University (22,000 students) though still below the University of Michigan (28,000). And it has all of a younger brother's problems. Fortnight ago, the state legislature announced that next year it aims to give Wayne only 64% as much money as Michigan...
...former I.N.R.A. official in the Manzanillo area, Lieut. Manuel Artime, reported from Mexican exile that he had quit in disgust after Castro told a secret meeting of I.N.R.A. officials last October that he had no intention of giving plots of land to peasants, planned to keep it instead in state-run cooperative farms. Artime also said he was sick of hearing "youth brigades" chanting their military drill cadence count outside his window every evening:" Uno-dos-tres-cuatro- viva-Fidel-Castro...
Free Labor. In Marxist fashion, Touré has clamped tight central controls on everything in sight. There is a government foreign-trade monopoly, and the state-run cooperatives, which buy farmers' products and sell them finished goods, are slowly pushing private merchants out of business. Each Sunday, workers are induced "voluntarily" to build roads, schools and clinics in a scheme grandly titled "Human Investment," and Touré is working hard to rip up tribal roots and create a Guinea nationalism. By requiring English as well as French instruction in schools, he hopes to create a bilingual nation that...
...creates a bifocal picture of Southern State Penitentiary at Creighton and its chief inhabitants, the most important of whom is "the treatment man," an assistant warden and psychologist who is symbolically named Pryor. Also called the Messiah, he is a vaguely evangelical figure with a jade ring and an MG, who keeps most of the inmates under his Freudian thumb. As the story flickers between Convict Desai and Counselor Sharon, it is clear that there are flaws in Psychologist Pryor's penmanship. For one thing, what is apparently "the best state-run maximum-security penitentiary in the United States...
...money is a nightmare, even more vexing is the oddly uneven quality of public education. Compared to Europe's state-run systems, U.S. schools seem an anarchist's brainchild. With their genius for decentralization, the Constitution's writers left education in the laps of the states, which handed it over to local communities. Today nearly all responsibility is vested in 198,108 members of 49,477 school boards. The schools they command reflect vastly different standards. The . teachers they hire receive grossly varying salaries. The results range from splendid to shameful...