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...cash by appearing in testimonial ads for a shirt company, writing sports articles for the London Observer, and receiving royalties on the sale of cricket bats bearing his signature. This anachronistic citadel of privilege seemed near collapse last week. An advisory committee recommended a change in the rules that doubtless will be approved by the Marylebone Cricket Club, a private club charged with setting the rules for England and the Commonwealth. Then there will no longer be either Gentlemen or Players, just Cricketers...
...rock-bottom criteria. The method of liberalizing the cum loud degree suggested here would permit like discretion--although in this case the Faculty should add the explicit enjoinder that the departments be lenient and flexible in judging a student's plea for release from the thesis. Again, practices would doubtless be "arbitrary" and would differ considerably among the departments--just as some fields cheerfully accepted the spirit of the tutorial plan whole, and others barely admitted its existence. But the Gill history has at least shown that delicate and appropriate Faculty legislation can act as a powerful loosening force...
...University is making many such decisions already, especially in the Admissions Office. Anyway, he estimates that in the huge majority of cases the machine would place students in exactly the same House as the Masters and the present system. And he adds encouragingly that the automatic system could doubtless inform the Masters of any extraordinary or borderline cases, and so allow ordinary human judgment to assert itself again...
...three main proposals that came from the Kremlin, the first will doubtless make the most fascinating reading for future scholars. In essence, it flatly offered to get Moscow's missiles out of Cuba if the U.S. agreed to drop any plans to invade. To date no one except top Kremlin and Washington officials knows what else it contained, because after its arrival on the night of Oct. 26. President Kennedy classified it top secret. From the accounts of those who have seen it, it was an unusual document, written in short sentences, obviously at top speed, and with great...
...sentiments belong to James Jackson Kilpatrick, 41, editor of the Richmond, Va., News Leader and one of the most gifted and eloquent spokesmen for the Old South. They sputter all through his new book, The Southern Case for School Segregation (Crowell-Collier; $3.95). But though diehard racists will doubtless thrill to its themes, as they have thrilled for years to Kilpatrick's racist editorials in the News Leader, the book is really a swan song-Editor Kilpatrick's last roar of defiance in what even he now concedes is a lost cause...