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...difference between the headlines on the Supreme Court's historic decisions and the thousands of words of the rulings themselves was the difference between instinctive applause for the principle of civil rights reasserted and sober second thought about actual results achieved. All told, the opinions documented the new concept of the court's functions as laid down by Chief Justice Earl Warren. TIME this week sets forth the gist of the decisions, analyzes their individual and collective importance, notes the dissents and feeling of dismay, and brings a reminder that the court is composed...
...recommend it. It would give 1) the hard-pressed Chinese masses a chance to let off a bit of steam without doing too much damage, and 2) the government a line on potential revolutionaries. But, as Hungary and Poland had demonstrated, Moscow could only look with horror on the concept of "beneficial small strikes" in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Rumania. (When Khrushchev's American TV interview was published in Russia, the only remark censored was Khrushchev's benign dismissal of the Mao Doctrine that there could be any friction between leaders and people in Russia...
...fashioned one-man rule with a new kind of decentralized management in which the company was broken up into divisions and the division bosses got real autonomy, were encouraged to compete with each other, buy supplies from whom they pleased. By its very nature the management concept imposed by Du Pont worked against the kind of control charged by the Government...
...maintains that grades do not stimulate a student to exceptional work, how can one have confidence that capacity for excellence will be shown by the grades of the first three years? This can be justified only by postulating a remarkable transformation between the junior and senior years, an unlikely concept. Speaking purely in terms of educational philosophy, Murdock agrees, one would have to ask for application of this type of independent education to all, for four years...
Dean Elder does not regard the problem as this critical although he conceded that it is a real one. While courses suggest a quantity concept of knowledge, he admits, Harvard's approach does no generally do this to a significant degree. "In fact," he says, "because Harvard's education is so good, Harvard must lead the way. If by his senior year in college a man is not ready to think on his own, there is not too much likelihood that another year of courses will lead him to do so."J. PETERSEN ELDER...