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...pros and cons of a year of study abroad. They wanted to go, but hated to give up Hirschfield's courses in humanities and history. "They got to talking with me about it," says Mullin, "and I said, why not just send Hirschfield along?" He did, and a tenth of Shimer's student body got both Europe and its favorite teacher, who taught them mornings in Paris bistros. "And you know," Mullin adds, "they all did better on their comps than the rest of their classmates...
West Virginia's little-known Wheeling Steel Corp. is only the tenth largest steel producer in the U.S., but last week it was first in the hearts of the industry. One year to the day after U.S. Steel's price rise sparked a business-political uproar, Wheeling Chairman William A. Steele surprised everyone by risking the Kennedy Administration's wrath with an announcement of selected price increases averaging $6 a ton. Steele's timing seemed a deliberate test of President Kennedy's present mood, and steelmen happily hailed Wheeling's lead. Said one competitor...
...proposes to aid education by categories-for example, a percentage of each state's federal money would be earmarked for city slum schools. As Ford sees it, this violates state control of education: it takes from states the power to spend the money as they please. Under the Tenth Amendment, states are regarded as responsible for getting Americans educated. (Education is unmentioned in the Constitution, and "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution" are thereby "reserved to the states respectively...
...from the start it was bad. In the fifth round, Moore lost his mouthpiece, was cut inside his mouth. In the tenth, Ramos ripped off a left that dropped him to one knee. Moore popped up, ran into a storm of punches, fell again. At the count of five, he lurched to his feet, staggered across the ring, and sprawled over the ropes. With that, his manager asked the referee to stop the fight...
...subtly obscuring the goal of learning. "School is not a place to get educated in," students told him earnestly, "it's to get you into college." Said one: "Our real aim-to grow intellectually-is blocked by this terrific marks-for-college hassle.'' Fearful that "every tenth of a point is crucial," students were cramming so hard for objective exams and atomized answers that no time remained for searching study. What students yearn for, says Mallery, is a way of "seeing some point, some design, of making some discovery oneself...