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In practical terms, the rule fails to recognize a difference in Ivy academic and grading standards from those of other colleges. A more serious objection to the rule is its infringement upon the rights of individual colleges or conferences to determine their own internal standards. Dean Monro, in a letter...
Despite all these precedents, New York City last week was paralyzed by a massive strike of public-transit workers (see THE NATION). As in other recent New York strikes involving teachers and welfare workers, no official dared invoke the Condon-Wadlin Act, the nation's toughest state antistrike statute...
A year before he was arrested for the nightrider slaying of Mrs. Viola Liuzzo near Selma last March, Alabama Klansman Collie Leroy Wilkins was riding around with a sawed-off shotgun in his car. Stopped by the cops in Hueytown, near Birmingham, Wilkins pleaded guilty to violating a 1934 federal...
Wilkins was let off with a hand-smacking: a suspended sentence and two years' probation, conditioned on his promise not to leave Allgood's judicial district in that time without specific permission from the parole officer.
During their first days in Moscow, reporters have the eerie feeling that they are being followed. They are. Ostentatiously so. The Russians want them to know they are on probation. "I was tailed the first two weeks, day and night," says Sam Jaffe, who arrived in Moscow in 1961. "After...