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Overseas, there is widespread concern. The Times Literary Supplement has warned stiffly, if somewhat forlornly, that "Atropos must be left in no doubt that the snap of these abhorred shears will be disagreeably audible in all seven continents." But Paul H. Buck is made of sterner stuff, and his Annual Report for 1959-60 echoes the language of that awesome moralist, Samuel Johnson ("The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time"). "Careful assessment of the Library's needs," Buck writes tonelessly, "indicated that other calls upon unrestricted money deserved a higher priority...
...maintained that tutorial should "counteract" and "supplement" regular courses, rather than replace them...
...were a bad idea to start with. Now Kennedy is complaining that these weekly conferences do not give him a chance to argue his views on key issues and win enough support to move a sluggish Congress. In this he is correct. It is thus encouraging that he may supplement the weekly sessions with a series of fireside chats. With luck and some thought, the chats will replace the TV conferences altogether...
...Kennedy's firmest campaign promises: an education program calling for $5 billion in new federal expenditure over the next five years. As the President sees it, the Federal Government should make annual grants of some $900 million to the states to build new public schools and supplement teacher salaries (based on a figure of $30 a year per pupil, with a bonus for low-income states and complex big-city plants), provide an additional $100 million for teacher-training...
...Church of the Holy Trinity last week was without a new minister; the post offers only $1,657 a year, and the outgoing pastor only managed because he rented out part of the vicarage as a furnished apartment. Elsewhere, a minister applied for a job as village postman to supplement his income, and the agony columns of the London Times recently carried a typical ad: "Anglican priest seeks private loan of ?300. Please help...