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P:With obvious feeling, the Pittsburgh Teachers Association issued a report on the state of student discipline, charged that there is much too much coddling of pupils and catering to parents. Among the association's specific grievances: 66 teachers said that they had been struck by pupils; 170 reported the theft of personal property; 92 complained that parents had threatened them; 268 said that pupils sent to the principal's office had flatly refused to go.

P:The Georgia state school board passed a formal resolution pledging to abide by the state appropriations act, which forbids any allotment to unsegregated schools or the payment of salaries to any teacher, principal, or school-bus driver in any local school system that does not strictly observe the segregation laws. P: Appointment of the week:Lieut. General Andrew D. Bruce, 59, to succeed Walter W. Kemmerer (TIME, May 4, 1953) as president of the University of Houston (see MILESTONES). A graduate of Texas A. & M., Armored Forceman Bruce commanded the 77th Infantry Division in the Pacific during World War II, was the first occupation governor of Hokkaido, later became commandant of the Armed Forces Staff College at Norfolk, Va.

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