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P: In spite of such perennial problems as the teacher shortage (72,000), U.S. Education Commissioner Lee Thurston reported that he was pleased with the U.S. public school system's record in general. Last year, said he, American taxpayers spent a record $7.5 billion on their schools, upped the average teacher's salary from $3,240 to $3,400. Furthermore, P.T.A. membership has doubled to 7,953,000 since 1946, and the number of citizens' committees interested in schools has multiplied eight times, to 8,000, since 1950.

P: The Veterans Administration had some news about the year-old Korean G.I. Bill of Rights. While more than half the 15 million veterans of World War II took advantage of their bill, only about one out of every ten Korean veterans has so far enrolled in schools or courses. One reason for the lack of interest: instead of getting $500 a year for tuition plus a minimum $65 a month for living costs, the unmarried Korean veteran gets a flat $110 a month for all expenses.

P: Student of the Week: Priscilla Holmes, 29, who last week became the first woman ever elected to the Harvard Law Review. A graduate of Swarthmore, Priscilla is one of 40 women taken into the law school since 1950, in her first year pulled down an A average. Her rank in the class of '55: 20th out of 501 students.

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