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...Last week in Flint, Mich., General Motors Institute, an accredited five-year engineering school, announced a long-range expansion program that will get started with a new men's dorm and a combination student union- conference hall for G.M.I.'s fulltime faculty of 200 and 2,400 rigorously chosen undergraduates. In G.M.'s plan, students work their way through college by alternating six weeks in class with six weeks in a plant. Similarly, the Bell System offers a four-week work-study cycle and contracts with six leading engineering schools to give courses for the company...
...Last week Ferguson and his boys were back from a four-week tour of 24 campuses. Hamp was at Manhattan's Café Metropole, where the band is strung out behind the bar like a police lineup. Woody and his men were trudging through the sticks playing just the kind of one-nighters that build character and make big bands dear to novelists: Columbus, Neb., to Grand Island, Neb.; Grand Island to Fort Riley, Kans.; Fort Riley to Pryor, Okla...
...fringe benefits, European workers already enjoy a system far broader than the best in the U.S. In Italy, fringes often include low-cost housing; in France, a four-week paid vacation for 65% of the work force; and everywhere, liberal retirement pay. Real wages are also increasing fast: last year in France they rose 8%, in Italy 15%, in Germany 6.5%, in Britain 4.2%.. This strategy has already contributed hugely to inflation in France, Italy and the Benelux nations, and rouses fears that a demoralizing new spiral may halt Britain's prosperity...
...realize them. Says he: "Man knows so much and does so little." Last week this crackpot stepped off the plane in London, spouting words the minute his feet touched ground, and headed for a dinner in his honor at the Royal Institute of British Architects. On Sunday he went to Bristol for two days of touring and talking. His next stop: Ghana's University of Science and Technology, which has been waiting a year for his arrival this week to conduct a four-week research and development project...
Predictably, the hardest-hit are the businesses that depend heavily on newspaper ads to lure their customers. At a time when most of the U.S. is setting new monthly retail records, New York department-store sales were off 8% from last year in the four-week period after Christmas, and Cleveland stores barely managed to hold their own by pouring their advertising into neighborhood papers. Stores desperately seek new means of getting word to potential customers; for $750 a day, Manhattan's S. Klein department stores bought ad posters on subway car windows-and gladly chipped in another...