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...imposition of British educational philosophy on the African university has created a gap between the educated African and his people, Sir Eric Ashby said in the second of his Godkin lectures at Sanders Theater last night...
...appointments, which will take effect July 1, extend the University's linguistic coverage from the Near and Far East through Europe to the Americas. The only major area still without a Faculty expert will be African linguistics, a gap which the University currently has no plans to fill...
...abuses. The most obvious sign of the dispute at the moment is the SEC's attempt to curb a clubby coterie of insiders on the Exchange, but the real issues are much deeper and broader. Says a top SEC official: "On some vital issues there is a basic gap between the securities business and us that cannot be bridged...
Black, who is the former head of the World Bank, said he thinks President Kennedy would have anted "to see this Kennedy institute developed as a place that can help bridge the gap between business and government," and called this "a worthwhile reason for corporate giving to this project...
More rewarding. Pay-check discrimination does exist, notably in banks, insurance and telephone companies, but women tend to overrate it. While the average woman worker earns much less than a man (about $3,300 a year v. $5,500), the gap is due not so much to discrimination as to the fact that more than three-quarters of the women workers have jobs in which men get relatively low pay-as clerks, secretaries, service workers, factory operatives, teachers. But the number of women in the more rewarding professions has risen 41% since 1950. The proportion of women among U.S. doctors...