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...faction of critics takes a baleful view. The University they contend, is in danger of becoming a high-level prep school--a place to be gotten through because of where its merit badges lead, not an experience to be savored for its own value and for what it contributes to a rich life. Wilbur J. Bender '27 clearly had this in mind when he wrote his final report as dean of admissions in 1961. "We may be attracting students," Bender said then, "who look on school as preparation for college, college as preparation for graduate school, and graduate school...
This year's campaign has gotten underway in earnest far earlier than ones in the recent past have as if to confirm the unusual nature of this year's politics. Graham notes the oddity of the 1964 Democratic convention. Sanford Ungar also finds an air of the unnatural at the Republican convention, though produced by circumstances considerably different from those at Atlantic City. Ungar notes the dilemma that Goldwater's nomination poses for liberal Republican candidates and analyzes the various pressures which must shape a politician's decision to support or repudiate the national ticket...
First-Round Limits. By now, New York's lower courts have gotten the message. In Queens, the first-level State Supreme Court has just upheld the board of education's "pairing" plan to redistribute Negro and white pupils between two schools that are only five blocks apart. The pairing plan is unlikely to produce "oppressive results or hardships," ruled the court, and may in fact produce more teachers and smaller classes for pupils of all races...
...Star Television. Boyer is a co-owner of Four Star, along with David Niven. They are both in the series, which NBC describes as "a comedy-melodrama about a family of jet-set jewel thieves and con men who are masters of separating the pompous rich from their ill-gotten gains . . . played against a backdrop of Riviera beaches, palatial villas, beautiful women and green felt gaming tables...
...Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and ran to a theater, while Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and ran to a warehouse. But Booth's refuge, where he was killed twelve days after shooting Lincoln, was in fact a tobacco-curing barn. Beyond this the twists have gotten ridiculous. It has been noted that Kennedy was shot while riding in a Lincoln made by Ford. Lincoln of course was shot in Ford's Theater. In the end there is one fillip that has caused some political eyebrows to swivel: Andrew Johnson, after he filled out the remainder...