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...HAVEN BANKRUPTCY was recommended for the deficit-ridden railroad by an ICC examiner and a committee of prominent New England businessmen. The examiner said the road's commuter lines should be run by state agencies, leaving it with only freight business and token passenger service...
...press and assembly," Dictator Rafael Trujillo has spared no effort to beat the Roman Catholic bishops of the Dominican Republic into submissive silence. Two months ago, dismayed by personal threats and public incitement against the church, the Dominican bishops informed Trujillo that they wished "to continue cooperating." As a token of capitulation, the dictator demanded the title "Benefactor of the Church," a distinction last conferred on Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa...
...Orleans had been left alone, token racial integration ordered for two of the city's elementary schools would have proceeded last year with a minimum of disorder. But in Baton Rouge, cowboy-songster Governor Jimmie H. Davis cranked the Louisiana legislature into paroxysms of racist sentiment, and it spewed out masses of bills aimed at grabbing control of the city's whole school system and cutting off pay to teachers at the integrated schools. The Federal District Court fought back with armloads of restraining orders, finally enjoined some 700 state officials, including the Governor and the entire legislature...
...same token, no reasons exist for raising the requirement. Of the 85 per cent who now continue study above the official minimum, perhaps 10 per cent could not reach the proposed score of 650. And of these at least half could pass an intermediate course with a D--. Clearly, then, a raise in the requirement would not appreciably affect the level currently being attained by the Harvard student body...
...image is made not so much by what it requires as by what its graduates have achieved. That Harvard has provided the courses and the intellectual atmosphere to induce its students to go beyond what it demands--by their own volition--is no small victory. This initiative under only token compulsion argues more loudly for Harvard's "image" than would a high requirement. The present system is more than merely adequate. It is deserving of justifiable pride...