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P: Checking up on the effectiveness of official pleas to students to "stay South" after graduation, Mississippi Southern College's Student Printz took a poll, learned that 68% of the 3,400 undergraduates planned to move away from Mississippi after graduation. What can the state do to keep its best-educated sons and daughters at home? The students' answer: Mississippi must provide "better schools, more industry, more enlightened public officials, lower taxes, and . . . legalized liquor."

P: In Cambridge, England, long denied membership in the clannishly male, 140-year-old Cambridge Union, female Cantabrigians set up their own debating society, the Cambridge University Women's Union. Then they straightway scheduled their first debate at the sacrosanct Red Lion Hotel, where the Men's Union was born. Topic: "Resolved, that women's place is in this house." Scoffed Cambridge Union President Richard Moore: "The whole thing will probably prove only that women cannot debate."

P: St. Louis School Superintendent Philip Hickey announced that a "major learning program" for gifted students will begin in city high schools next fall. Guided by special teacher-counselors, selected students will be encouraged to take extra courses, work on study projects outside class, engage in extracurricular activities; moreover, their parents will be urged to send them through college or advanced technical training. Required for admittance to the program: an outstanding ability in a particular field, e.g.," languages, mathematics and an I.Q. at least 20 points above the class average.

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