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...real housecleaning, the A.C.E. urged last week, every state should drastically boost standards for licensing and degree granting. Already the Council of State Governments has shown "willingness to proceed immediately toward uniform state legislation." Congress might also plug interstate and international loopholes with new laws, make sure that U.S. Foreign Service officers get full dossiers on academic racketeers. "Through such solidly founded cooperation," the A.C.E. concluded, "there is a real chance that American degree mills can be eliminated...
...brought in more than a dozen top executives, plucking them away from such firms as Revlon, Macy's and Marshall Field with generous stock-option plans, and he gave employee morale a quick boost by putting in a new pension plan. He reorganized Ward's management structure, bolstered confidence by delegating authority, scrapped Sewell Avery's outlandish rules. He began to change Ward's cash hoard into merchandising strength in 1955, since then has redecorated nearly 376 of the company's 566 stores, air-conditioned 73 of them, opened more than 296 new catalogue stores...
...Europe it has been customary for the art critics of each country to boost native artists. U.S. critics have long declined to do the same, but now they are changing. Sign of the trend: George Braziller Inc. last week published six monographs on U.S. artists, to sell at $3.95 in hard cover and $1.50 in Pocket Book. The low prices were achieved by gambling on large sales and by ordering big first printings-10,000 hard cover, 50,000 paperbacks. The editions are identical inside, carry more than 80 plates each, with 16 in color (drawn partly from the files...
J.P.L.'s founders got a bigger boost in 1939. when the National Academy of Sciences came across with $10,000 to develop rockets for helping airplanes get off the ground. In 1941 the first airplane took off with a J.P.L.-developed JATO (Jet Assisted Take Off) rocket. During World War II, J.P.L. was reorganized as a laboratory run for the Army by Caltech...
...second quarter, U.S. corporations reported the largest quarterly increase in nine years in working capital. The $3 billion boost brought the total to a record $125.4 billion...