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...high schools, and far more than its share of national scholarship winners. But the city is losing students to the suburbs, and hard-to-teach Negro and Puerto Rican children are on the increase-they comprise 76.5% of all elementary school pupils in Manhattan. Such children are often so transient that in some schools teachers get two sets of students between September and June. The city has poured extra cash and supplies into 274 "special service" schools, but none of it goes far enough. A third of all junior high students are at least two years retarded in reading...
...autumn's transient desire...
That the U.S. finds itself in a payments squeeze is a measure of the poor state of the world's monetary system. Last week a Government-financed report by the prestigious Brookings Institution found that the real problem is not the transient U.S. payments deficit, but the lack of enough gold and currency reserves around the world to finance the growth of global trade. The report foresaw a U.S. payments surplus by 1968, but even that would be no full solution; a surplus will lead to deficits for U.S. trading partners, which will then react by restricting their imports...
Briefly stated, the main Administration argument runs this way: Because the summer student body is so transient, School officials have little chance to know and evaluate individuals, and the students themselves probably have little sense of "continuing responsibility" to Harvard. A permissive attitude toward undergraduate organizations, therefore, could lead to situations that would discredit the University. In order to prevent the "wrong kind" of person from gaining access to the Halls of Harvard, the School has thus ruled that no one can enter. The Socialist Club is just an incidental victim of a broad rule insuring a lack of opportunity...
...costs, two teams of executives surveyed 15 Hilton hotels in the U.S. last year, came up with findings that will save the chain nearly $2 million. All this has helped to bring the Hilton chain's labor bill down to 40% of its revenue, v. 45% for most transient hotels...