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...remaining recommendation of the subcommittee are as innocuous as they are trivial. They, and Stookey's entire report, duck the real question before the Faculty this afternoon: the relation between General Education and the freshman seminars...
...botanist, Sir Eric conducted research on hybrid vigor, plant ecology, and the growth and nutrition of duck weed. After the war, he wrote a series of papers on the growth of leaves...
...Since Hang Seng deals with the U.S., it cannot itself, under U.S. Treasury regulations, have dollar dealings with Peking.) Through a maze of companies as intricate as an ancient Chinese ivory carving. Hang Seng's chiefs move quickly in and out of speculations in everything from autos and duck feathers to rice and real estate. Smiles one Hang Seng executive: "Our ventures are calculated, very calculated risks...
...office Townsend is a brusque, blunt executive who would rather duck into a man's office for a talk than use the telephone. With Townsend, says one hardworking Chrysler official, "the needle is always out?but always in good humor." Says Chairman George Love: "He has the rare capacity to persuade his associates to express opinions contrary to his own." Adds Love of his own relationship with Townsend: "Let's say Townsend has an uncle?an uncle with some experience m managing a pretty tough coal business. This uncle is looking over his nephew's shoulder because the uncle...
While taking in Robert Dawson's good poems for instance, the ancient courtesan has had to choke on his bad ones as well. The "Superman" and "Donald Duck" of Dawson's Suite Picaresque neatly juxtapose their heroes with a more immediate world, and unlike "Tonto" and "Woody Woodpecker" are careful and clever, never trying to tease too many profundities at once. For the most part he avoids what most of this issue's other contributors tirelessly insist upon attempting--sloppy, rambling, and pretentious juggling with the Absolute. Instead of annihilating all his images by sudden leaps from them into windy...