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Besides Miss Parkers' letter, pro NSA forces will receive help from a Student Council bulletin citing the Council's reasons for voting to return to NSA. To be delivered to every room in the College, the note urges students to vote in favor of rejoining...
After swearing allegiance to the U.S., should a college student who gets a federal loan also have to file an affidavit that he is not subversive? Yes, according to the National Defense Education Act. No, according to 16 colleges and universities that now refuse to take part in the $30 million Federal Student Loan Program, and to many others who participate unhappily. When Harvard and Yale recently quit in protest (TIME, Nov. 30), they declared that the "disclaimer affidavit" is i) superfluous and 2) discriminating against students. Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold called the affidavit reminiscent...
...tourist flight after another. Each carries 44 lbs. of baggage, a dwindling $300 in pocket money. Behind them: Boston, New York, Washington, San Francisco, Honolulu, Tokyo. Ahead: Bangkok, Calcutta, New Delhi, Cairo (midyear exams), Istanbul, Athens, Rome, Florence, Geneva, Berlin, Paris, London (final exams). So far only one student has been lost; he missed the plane in Baltimore, caught up next day in San Francisco...
Last week, weary but still getting along famously together, the students haunted Hong Kong like gimleteyed inspectors general. After morning classes, they visited refugee housing projects, a noodle factory for the needy, several island fishing villages. They showed up at a Hindu wedding, wandered through a Macao gam bling casino, edged to within 100 yds. of Communist China. A U.S. consular official gave them a two-hour briefing; veteran New York Times Correspondent Tillman Durdin conducted a long bull session on Red China. Equally educating were the solitary strolls that many took through teeming Asian slums, a revelation to youngsters...
Warned by the Better Business Bureau, police forwarded photos of two Lass "Picassos" to Picasso himself, and the master labeled both fakes. Museum experts declared the older pictures largely student efforts, with signatures clumsily painted in. The Lasses stood firm under fire, protesting that an international art cartel was out to get them. But the brothers' own art tastes seemed confused. "Picasso," said Mark Lass, "is a mere cartoonist." But when he was asked how much he would take for one of his "Picassos," he answered: "I would not sell under half a million dollars. I would destroy instead...