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...appears that, at least for the near future, the semi-annual ordeal will remain with us. To be sure, its critics have quite a few arguments left: examinations create arbitrary divisions between bodies of knowledge; they encourage students to cram in a hurry and forget equally rapidly. But given the practical advantages of examinations under the present educational system, one doubts that these criticisms will prevail. From a pragmatic standpoint, one can only ask: given examinations, how can they be made more tolerable? Or one can take a radical approach and inquire whether the entire system should be changed...
...Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, which countered Southern Pacific's challenge by quickly picking up a 20% holding in Western, wants to run Western as a separate, semi-autonomous railroad, continue to use it to compete with the Southern Pacific. Other railroads joined the fight. The Santa Fe's transcontinental archrival, the Union Pacific, whose lines tie in with the Southern Pacific's, said that it had bought up 10% of Western's stock and that it supported the S.P. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, which competes with the Santa Fe in the Midwest, also came...
Although the girls living in these houses have strongly urged their retention, "it is inevitable that the small units go," Nelson W. Aldrich declared at the semi-annual Cedar Hill conference...
...American Dream is less restrained, although the one-hour work begins as a sort of surrealistic situation comedy about a prosperous bourgeois family. The dialogue is a wildly hilarious melange of clichés, inanities and redundancies. Vacuous, tyrannical Mommy harangues intimidated, impotent Daddy, and both berate semi-senile Grandma, whom they threaten to send off to a nursing home. Then in comes a clubwoman who doesn't know who she is or why she is there. Says Mommy: "Won't you sit down, would you like a cigarette and a drink, and would you like to cross...
...first place, it would remove the office of the President from the influence, bickerings, and personal feuds of a group of semi-professional politicians...