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Each buyer of an American Motors car will get a $25 bond for every 10% increase. The effects will be cumulative. Thus if December sales increase 10%, and there is another gain in January so that the two months' total rise is 20%, the December buyer who has already received one $25 bond will get another, and the January buyer will get a $50 bond. The most any buyer can get is $125 in bonds for a 50% increase. Romney said he would probably renew the plan after the four-month trial...
More sobering than sermons are the statistics of the Southern Education Reporting Service, which last week added up this year's gains in Southern school integration. Negroes make up about one-quarter (3,097,534) of all Southern public school students. But only 195,625 are in integrated schools, and the District of Columbia accounts for 81,392 of them. Four little Negro girls may have desks in the white schools of New Orleans, but segregation is still total in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina, four states where 36% of the South's Negroes live. Segregation...
...only 115,000. It has also gradually slowed the rate of accumulation of cars by dealers, one of the industry's biggest worries. November new-car shipments to dealers exceeded sales by only 50,000 units, and the inventory count rose to about 972,000, a small gain for the month...
...varsity basketball team capitalized on the inexperience of a Sophomore- Tufts quintet to gain a 66-57 victory at Cousens Gymnasium last night...
Most of those satisfied with the program felt that it had fulfilled their expectations well. The flexibility of the program, expressed by a student who said he had accepted because, "I had everything to gain and nothing to lose," was also, however, the greatest weakness for many. There were frequent complaints that guidance was inadequate and that most students did not know how to cope with the options presented...