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...recent Russian farm delegation indicated, the U.S. need have no doubts about the skill of its agricultural production. Housing is another matter. For two decades before the end of World War II, the U.S. fell behind badly. Since then, a housing boom has gone far to close the gap, but whether its quality matches its quantity is still questionable. Last week a visit by ten top Russian housing administrators provided some interesting insights...
...growing body of Indian xenophobes. At home, Mahalanobis wants to jack the tax level from 7% of national income to 10% (the U.S. tax level: 26%). Even with the higher taxes and $1 billion from outside, a deficit of $4.4 billion would remain. Mahalanobis suggested filling half the gap through funded debt, the other half simply by having the government print $2.2 billion in new money...
Emergency programs of a few weeks' duration must be recognized for what they are -- "a stop-gap measure that ameliorates somewhat the bad effects of introducing persons without adequate preparation into teaching, but which in no way assures the basic professional competence a teacher needs," he noted...
Always speaking through a fictitious figure, the author said some colleges "pre-date their founding to that of an antecedent preparatory school, regardless sometimes of any gap in time between the demise of the prep school and the chartering of the college...
...York Jewish girl, Marjorie Morgenstern, who wants to be an actress. She falls, and after losing her chastity, becomes a respectable and loving mother and wife. Marjorie's final position in society is to Wouk a triumph, and not a failure. Throughout the novel, Wouk points out the gap between the average American woman's ("Shirley's") conception of herself, and the reality of her possibilities. Every "Shirley", Wouk believes, wants to be Hemingway's Lady Brett Ashley, and is incapable of being such. Since Wouk sides with the "Shirleys" it is plain that he thinks 1.) the average American...