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Heavy Losses. Last week, after what started out as a parochial squabble within his Cabinet, Gorton was deposed at last. The immediate issue was whether he had tried to undercut his able Defense Minister Malcolm Fraser, 40, in a dispute with senior army officers. Tall, tough and outspoken, Fraser was convinced he had been treated shabbily. He resigned, accusing Gorton of "deliberate disloyalty" toward a colleague...
...education are the nation's 105 black colleges. Long isolated by segregation, they have been almost as poorly served by integration. As predominantly white institutions have opened their doors to Negroes, many of the black schools' most promising applicants have been lured away. Major institutions have also undercut those schools by snapping up top black teachers and administrators. As first steps toward reversing this downward trend, the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education last week recommended that black colleges should remain black, upgrade their courses, and double their enrollment, perhaps as soon...
...otherwise might be bored to the point of hostility. Skeptics insist that such highly individualized scholarship needs close faculty-student rapport, and that big campuses will never be able to afford the staff to provide it. The new approach, they fear, could eliminate incentives to hard work and undercut liberal education with academic faddism...
...question in the minds of most students is why the Administration would want to undercut "a nice organization like PBH." The reluctance of Administration officials to discuss the PBH funding issues leaves further questions unanswered. When asked about PBH, Dean May referred the matter to Dean Dunlop, who said "give Ernic May a call." May then referred the issue to Dean Barbara Solomon, chairman of the CSCR subcommittee, who said she could not really discuss PBH funding because financial decisions ultimately rest with Dunlop...
...long had a monopoly on many of the goods coming into Cambodia. Severs hopes to work around them, however, with the help of the American Embassy. He says that as a virtual monopoly they have been charging exorbitant prices for years, and that he will be able to undercut them. "I can sell the same can of milk for which they've been getting 18 riels for 6 riels," he explains...