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Unfortunately, other considerations come ahead of education in the minds of some college administrators today. They have come to regard students almost as a nuisance, who get in the way of the perfectly functioning administrative machine. They are not so much concerned that students shall have an opportunity to whet their critical faculties as that students shall not rock the boat...
Juncos & Jaegers. In San Francisco, a seventh-grader named Arthur Wang found a stray Slate-Colored Junco (rarely seen west of the Sierras), while elsewhere in the bay area his colleagues registered the Eastern Phoebe, the Pomarine Jaeger, the Hermit Warbler and the Saw-Whet Owl. From Oahu, Hawaii, a dedicated birder named Grenville Hatch reported sightings by her group of 500 Red-Footed Boobies, 452 Frigate-Birds, 433 Arctic Golden Plovers and one Long-Billed Dowitcher...
...Soviets have cloaked their feat with some mystery, are doling out the facts of the flight in dribbles to whet world curiosity. Last week Pravda published the latest installment of details and the first photo of "Venusnik.'' Biggest news: the satellite will probe deeply into the gravitational field of Venus-will pass within 62,000 miles of the cloud-shrouded planet on May 19 or May 20-then flash back data to earth and continue onward in an elliptical orbit around...
...Death of Satan. Poet Ronald Duncan tells a Shavian tale about a nervous Devil who feels that things are going too well in Hell and dispatches Don Juan to earth to find out why. The play's whet-stoned humor makes up for an inadequate production...
Britain wiped out import quotas on all but a handful of U.S. goods that have been barred or restricted for 20 years. Its gesture is expected to whet demand for American-style cocktail dresses and printed skirts, other readymade clothing of new, washable fabrics that are still high-priced in Britain. Novelties such as blue jeans, California apple juice, well-designed U.S. toys, and costume jewelry should also fare well. But Detroit automakers expect no gain, since steep British import duties and sales taxes, added to transport costs, double U.S. price tags. U.S. cars are considered too big, too flary...