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Cambridge School Superintendent John M. Tobin submitted a proposal to the School Committee on Oct. 19 providing for an "open enrollment" policy. This plan, which will have to wait for approval until the next committee meeting on Nov. 9, would allow for the transfer ring of white children into, and non-white children out of the school, at their parents' request...
...specifics of a program to implement it and members are obligated to carry it out. Nevertheless, if a member disagrees with either policy or implementation, he is again obligated to continually discuss the matter with the relevant party groups (generally his club executive). In extreme cases, he may transfer from the area of work affected by the decisions or can abstain from working on the particular program involved. Discipline, voluntarily accepted on joining, applies to all members, whatever their position. It demands that they do not publicly oppose party policy formulated in this manner...
Perhaps the greatest measure of the President's faith in his judgment was the role he played when Lyndon Johnson underwent surgery. During the hours when Johnson's mind was dulled by anesthesia, somebody had to be empowered to decide whether to transfer the office of the presidency to Vice President Hubert Humphrey in case of a crisis. That somebody was Moyers...
...pedal-powered machine; he started at 7 p.m., finished at 9 o'clock the next morning. That summer he got to feeling that Johnson did not even know he existed. At the end of his Washington stint, Lyndon summoned Moyers to his baronial office, urged him to transfer to the University of Texas, and offered him a $300-a-month job with KTBC, Lady Bird's Austin television station...
...northeast of Melbourne, the "slushies" at Timbertop school scarcely paused in their chores when they got the official news: 16-year-old Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, will become one of Timbertop's "young old boys" in February. There had been rumors that the prince might transfer from Scotland's Gordonstoun School, and, while royalty is something special at "Australia's Eton," wealthy boys from throughout the world are commonplace there, and the slushies* are pretty blase about such things...