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P: Having finally been forced to conclude his career as a bogus college professor, Marvin Hewitt, the degreeless wonder who got seven academic posts under four different names (TIME, March 15), received an offer from the city where his father was killed while on duty as a police sergeant. Wrote Philadelphia's Managing Director Robert K. Sawyer: "If your masquerade is really over, it might be possible to find a place for you and your family here."

P: After 13 years of urging "clergy and laity, in season and out of season, to stop the sin of racial segregation," Roman Catholic Archbishop Robert E. Lucey issued a flat order to the 80 parochial schools in the archdiocese of San Antonio. "Henceforth," said he in a pastoral letter, "no Catholic child may be refused admittance to any school maintained by the archdiocese merely for reason of color, race or poverty."

P: U.S. private schools are something of a national necessity, said U.S. Education Commissioner Samuel M. Brownell last week: "It is sometimes said that [the private schools] are undemocratic and unAmerican. The fact is, however, that . . . by their historic contributions to our tradition of freedom of belief and freedom to teach . . . they exemplify a democratic freedom . . . Cultivation of a habitual awareness of God and . . . teaching the history and bases of religion are inalienable rights which the non-public schools may exercise in their attempts to make God-centered rather than self-centered youth." Indeed, concluded Brownell, the greatness of American education as a whole is due largely to "its very diversity."

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