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Unfortunately, however, America's educational resources become less adequate yearly. The war babies are growing up, and it is estimated that by 1970 college enrollment will have doubled.
One day in 1950, after 14 years on the San Francisco Chronicle, Columnist Herb Caen strolled over to Hearst's Examiner, changed the name of his column (from "It's News to Me" to "Baghdad-by-the-Bay"), and nearly doubled his salary (to $30,000). Last week...
Edward Weeks, 59, a slim, hawk-nosed New Jerseyite of good schooling (Cornell, Harvard, Cambridge) and filigree style, has been the Atlantic's editor for 19 years, longer than all but his immediate predecessor, the celebrated Ellery Sedgwick. Weeks's Atlantic has had to endure the penalties of...
By 1972, said DuBridge, the number of youngsters old enough to enter college will be up 75% to 4,000,000. "The fraction of these youngsters who wish to enter college is also rising, so that enrollments in the nation as a whole will surely be doubled . . . We must not...
Stripped of its complex algebraic formulas, Parkinson's Law is this: the staff of any administrative department increases annually by 5%-6% "irrespective of any variation in the amount of work (if any) to be done." Not one to proclaim dogma without data, Author Parkinson presents the strange case...