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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...nation's oldest colleges (founded 1696), tiny, coeducational St. John's last year got 1,400 inquiries, could admit only 120 freshmen. It now has 277 students, next year will hit its avowed limit of 300. The obvious demand tempts St. John's to colonize the rest of the U.S.: "We think our kind of education should be offered to more people," Weigle says...
...Clemens' father was a restless frontiersman, always dreaming of wealth and never finding it. The boy loathed school in Hannibal, Mo. As he later let Huck Finn put it: "At first I hated the school, but by and by I got so I could stand it. Whenever I got uncommon tired, I played hookey, and the hiding I got next day done me good and cheered me up." Clemens himself fled school by the time...
...first made-in-Detroit rebate. In 1915 Henry Ford rebated $15.4 million to customers at the rate of $50 a car. The United Auto Workers union has suggested similar plans to automakers. Romney himself put one forth in 1957, but attached so many conditions that it never got started. This time, he says, he is going...
...oilman's secretary." Still, it is the very special sale that pleases him most. In one working day last week, Marcus came up with the gift for the "man who has everything, including a hangover," and sold a portable oxygen tank. Another customer who wanted "something new" got a watch specially made without numbers (it had only a single black dot). And then, of course, "the wife of the Vice President-elect came by and selected her inaugural gown along with a new suit...
...THIRD REICH, by William L. Shirer. The most successful effort yet to get into one volume the grisly and disheartening history of Naziism, from the birth of its creator to his suicide in a Berlin bunker. In Hitler, argues Shirer with a wealth of supporting evidence, the German people got just what they wanted...