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Decrying a $15 increase in the rental price of dormitory rooms and a $100 boost in tuition, Massachusetts Institute of Technology student veterans declared, in a special edition of their paper, "Veterans View," that "All of these increases place the student, veteran and non-veteran alike, in a terrible squeeze...
Whoever wrote your penetrating and devastating analysis of Salazar's dictatorship gave a good boost to the cause of democracy. No dictator can be quite sure of his job while free men can wield such...
Last week Martin Browne's R.D.S. gave the cause an added boost. It helped out the Sheffield City Training College in a week-long course in religious drama, joined in instructions and demonstrations that ranged from how to walk on stage to how to produce a play. Said one bespectacled girl: "It's been 100%. Absolutely something for everyone." Sheffield's school was the biggest practical effort the R.D.S. has seen so far. Its success has already led to planning courses like it in three other cities...
Most of the noise came from representatives of 27 unions protesting last week's layoff of 450 Disney employes, almost half the studio's staff. Replied General Manager John F. Reeder: the new pay schedule (a 25% increase-an estimated $1 million-a-year boost in the payroll) put into effect on the demand of the Screen Cartoonists Guild would not allow the studio to keep on going full blast with a reasonable hope of profit. Work would have to stop, said he, on all but four feature productions (Song of the South, Fun and Fancy Free...
...Senate last week. Senator David I. Walsh, his eye on the November election, proposed a raise in the allotment from 65 dollars to 90, and from 90 to 115 dollars. On the basis of the 1,700,000 veterans now in college or on-the-job training, such a boost would cost the Federal Government an extra half a billion dollars annually...