Monday, Mar. 21, 1955

Report Card

P:Having once turned down the request of eleven Soviet editors of student newspapers and magazines to visit the U.S., Attorney General Herbert Brownell announced a change of heart. On the recommendation of Secretary Dulles, said he, the U.S. will waive the McCarran-Walter immigration act, allow the editors to come avisiting for one month.

P:President Gwilym A. Price of the Westinghouse Electric Corp. revealed his company's new bonanza for the nation's private colleges and universities. In addition to the hundreds of thousands it already gives to education, Westinghouse will provide over the next five years 1) $2,350,000 for campus operating and building funds, 2) $1,750,000 for more than 300 scholarships, fellowships, professorships and teaching awards, and 3) $900,000 for such projects as a summer-employment program for teachers.

P: The segregationist Citizens Council of Indianola, Miss. offered a $50 prize for the best essay written as part of the required work in the high-school's junior and senior English classes. Subject of the essay: "The Advantages to Both Races of Continued Separate Schools."

P: Haled into court for running into a car while pulling away from a curb, retired Schoolteacher Lucy Lundie Kittle of Memphis found herself facing the judicial countenance of her old student, Beverly Boushe. The sentence Judge Boushe imposed: "Write I will be more careful pulling from the curb' 20 times."

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