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...schoolrooms. An "urgent appeal" to primary-and secondary-school pupils to return went out last February, and similar orders were given for college and university students in March. But as of last week, only 31 of China's 840 universities and colleges had resumed classes on even a token level, and the percentage of secondary schools open was just as low. In most cases the schoolrooms to which the students returned bore little resemblance to those they had left. Teaching equipment has been carried off or damaged, walls are hung with soggy, frayed posters and slogans, windows are broken...
...government spending 30%, canceled ruinous import subsidies, and brought the rate of inflation down to 41% by last year. To clean out Communists and political corruption, he stripped almost 800 Brazilians of their political rights and abolished all political parties except for a catchall government party and a token opposition. To guard against any return to the old ways, he also wrote a new constitution that provided for indirect presidential elections by Congress...
Integration of Boston's public housing has been token. Most projects still can be clearly identified as predominantly white or predominantly Negro...
...limitations which were imposed shortly after the coup last April 21 were never more than a token sign of displeasure but the current trend toward complete restoration of favor is an even more disheartening sign. Greece and its military rulers depend heavily upon military assistance from the U.S., which has supplied $1.3 billion in such aid since 1950. In recent years, it has been about $80 million annually...
...long and crowded career as painter, illustrator, dairy farmer, explorer, author and lecturer, Rockwell Kent, 85, of Ausable Forks, N.Y., has also found time for a procession of leftist causes, from the Wobblies on. As a token of their appreciation, the Soviets this spring awarded him a Lenin Peace Prize worth 25,000 rubles (officially $27,775). Not to be outdone, Kent disclosed that he has donated $10,000 of it to "the suffering women and children of Viet Nam's Liberation Front" as "a token of my shame and sorrow." Next it was the U.S. Treasury...