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...becoming an island in a sea of slums, and the whole area was plagued by one robbery and mugging after another. The university was also running in the red: except for a couple of years during World War II, it had not balanced its budget since 1938. Most ticklish problem of all was the fact that Hutchins' famed B.A. degree, given whenever a student, with or without a high-school diploma, could pass the necessary general-education requirements, had not been entirely successful. Other universities Were suspicious of it, and so were the secondary schools. As a result, undergraduate...
...ticklish question of invitations was saved until almost the end. Burma's Premier U Nu suggested that Israel be included, but Pakistan's Mohammed AH objected on behalf of the Moslem states, and Israel was excluded. The white-supremacy government of South Africa was not even discussed. ("We can't go there, so why the hell should we invite them here," explained Ceylon's Sir John Kotelawala.) North and South Viet Nam were invited; South and North Korea were not. Indonesia's Ali Sastroamidjojo proposed Japan, a surprising suggestion from a nation that still remembers...
...Faced with hundreds more applicants than they have room for while still forced to take all qualified comers, California's ten state colleges tackled a ticklish question: Would it be undemocratic to limit enrollments by upping entrance requirements? Last week the state board of education said go ahead. For the present, the colleges need take in only A and B high-school students...
...faculty level, the group is discussing ways of judging the work done by individual tutors. A ticklish problem, this involves careful analysis of each tutor's record...
...better had it been done on a shoestring. For its very Gallic story of the Marseille waterfront-of a young girl who finds herself pregnant after her sea-crazed lover sails away, and of her marriage to a widower who loves her and craves a child-is a ticklish compound of sentiment and hard sense, of ruefulness and worldliness, that requires delicately simple treatment. As a play enfolded in music, it could be both piquant and touching. As a grandiose spectacle-with undersea ballets, waterfront fandangos and full-rigged ships crossing the stage -the story becomes both sluggish and slapdash...