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P: The University of Massachusetts won its long fight with the state legislature to determine the size and caliber of its own faculty (TIME. Feb. 13). Subject since 1954 to state control of jobs, salaries and classifications, the university protested that it was unable to compete for top teachers unless it had autonomy in hiring and firing. The new "freedom bill," passed by the legislature by a good majority, gives control of professional personnel to the university but retains control of clerical personnel for the state.

P: A committee to push the teaching in U.S. high schools and colleges of the facts about Communism was established by the Foundation for Religious Action in the Social and Civic Order and the American Political Science Association. It got an immediate endorsement from President Eisenhower. Said he: Our students "must be taught to discriminate between the American form of government and the Soviet form. When they have all the facts, I am confident they will make the correct choice."

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