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...proposal for a more stringent honor system was decisively rejected by Business School students in a special vote taken last week, Dunbar Abston, chairman of the Educational Committee of the Business School Student's Association, announced Friday...
...adequate supply will be available for all by August at the latest. In her own defense of the voluntary system, Mrs. Hobby has pointed out how well the voluntary administration of penicillin shots was carried out in 1952. She forgets, however, that even then Health Service officials required stringent controls on distribution to prevent black markets...
...municipal government will lease the brothels to private operators, who must conform to a stringent regulatory code. Each establishment will house no more than 16 prostitutes, all of whom must obtain good-conduct certificates from the police. Prostitutes must be at least 22 years old, customers at least 18. Every prostitute will have a legal right to reject any customer she finds unacceptible. As a final touch of austerity, the code strictly forbids any drinking, dancing or gambling on the premises...
...much as the soldier is trained to salute not the officer but the uniform of his country. The superior deliberately imposes humiliations to break the natural self-love most lay Christians take as a matter of course. Obedience even to a relatively relaxed rule can be a stringent whip if performed, as it should be, on the split instant. St. Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-1897), the "Little Flower," once advised a novice: "When someone knocks at your door, or when you are called, you must practice mortification and refrain from doing even one additional stitch before...
...responsible for the medical care of 30 million Americans. Cost last year: $4.15 billion. In the opinion of the Hoover Commission, that money is ill-spent by 26 overlapping, badly organized agencies and 66 administrative units. To clear up the mess, a task force of doctors.and administrative experts made stringent suggestions to the Hoover Commission.* In somewhat tempered form, the suggestions went to Congress last week. Main points...