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...firing-was not to become law before the nation had a twelve-month period to study it. Last week Title VII finally went into effect. Hopefully the yearlong study period will pay off, for the new law is one of the most complex collections of dos and don'ts passed by Congress in many a stormy session...
...aural-oral. Stein counsels his future college teachers to develop in their students the ability for automatic response and communications--the same kind a child develops learning his native language. He opposes this to the old-fashioned grammar-and-translation approach. In fact, a "Do's and Don'ts" sheet which Stein distributes to his teaching fellows concludes with a warning: "There is a departmental ban on the use of the words 'memorize' and 'translate,' and a total ban on the translation of any sentence German-to-English or English-to-German from an open book by the student...
...Communist countries except Albania and East Germany. U.S. tourists have no legal rights in the Western sense, but neither should they fear being treated any worse than Communist citizens. Checking in at the U.S. consulate is the first thing to do in all Communist countries. As for "don'ts," the list is long: Don't criticize officials, disobey police, lose documents, carry letters for anyone, or photograph shabby people and military installations (including civilian bridges, airports and railroad stations). A Communist legal tour...
Something Added. Mixing concrete for foundations, driving nails, painting, digging sewage trenches, boys and girls work side by side-and scrupulously respect the project's list of dos ("girls are always escorted") and don'ts ("no excessive displays of affection") designed to ensure that they do not "contribute to the portrait of the 'Ugly American.'" The students pay their own expenses, prepare their own meals, even kick in a minimum of $10 each to help buy precious building materials...
Elde and his colleagues counted the 600,000 pages and collated the texts of three sets of the Sau-pu ts'ung k'an to prepare it for reprinting. The 250-volume reprint edition will cost $3000 a set when re-issued...