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...number of proposals have been advanced to remedy this situation. Some would require that all exams bear detailed comments; others suggest that each student have a right to confront his grader. One of the more unique suggestions is that of Sanford A. Lakoff, assistant professor of Government. The present student-faculty ratio, Lakoff says, makes it "utopian" to expect elaborate comments or an individual session with a grader. Many courses might improve matters by devoting a special meeting to a "post-mortem" on the exam, but half-courses would find this difficult...
...shelved the billion-dollar program of aid to underdeveloped countries that had been announced with such fanfare last fall as their great gesture to help share the U.S.'s foreign aid load in 1961. Adenauer's Christian Democrats pleaded that they face elections this fall, dare not confront the voters with such a costly program...
...slow the boom, but insisted that the fight laid "a firm base" for sound growth. "Some temporary acceleration of growth might have been achieved if expectations of price increases had been allowed to persist and to become fully rooted." But such growth would have been "unsustainable" and would now confront the economy with "the need for far-reaching and painful correction...
...This is the first in a series of editorials dealing with major policy problems that will confront the new Kennedy Administration...
Within Europe itself, NATO's policymakers confront a historic new fact that would have seemed incredible at NATO's birth in 1949. Only 15 years after Hitler's death, a new German army has taken its place as the pivot of Western defense in Europe. With half a million French troops tied down in Algeria, the Germans are already the strongest European force on the Continent. In two or three years time, the West German Bundeswehr will match if not surpass in might all the other NATO armies in Europe combined, including the powerful U.S. Seventh Army...