At Penn State, the decision was made, and rightly so I might add, to replace many high-ranking officials including the school president Graham Spanier.

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Pupils were not told in advance who the "special visitor" would be - and the school itself did not have confirmation that the planned visit of a "high-ranking government minister" would include the prime minister until Friday.

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Esther Peterson, the top-ranking woman in the Kennedy administration, asked an auditorium full of working-class high school girls in Los Angeles how many expected to have a "home and kids and a family, " and the room was full of waving hands.

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