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The obvious steps for an institution haunted by the threat of bankruptcy-reducing facilities and raising tuition-pose alarming consequences. The serious fund shortage has already left many institutions no choice but to lower their educational standards by deleting courses, discharging teachers, and postponing plans for expansion or modernization. Raising...
By his own admission a talented man (he speaks four languages, writes music and sings), Boris Pregel has a special talent for bad publicity. In 1946, the New York Journal-American disclosed the sale of 500 Ibs. of uranium oxide to the Soviet Union during the war, and later identified...
As a playwright, Eliot is still a little dazed by the footlights. He resorts to chalk and blackboard to work out his plots. Says he: "My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up & down." (The Cocktail Party is his first play to be produced on a large commercial scale. His...
Jesús Martin Benito was a Basque peasant boy who had hoped for fame as an artist. When he failed at that, he turned to art-doctoring, two years ago became one of the eight official restorers in Madrid's museum, the Prado. On the side, he haunted...
Few economists would say that in 1949 the U.S. economy had achieved stability. But the U.S. had started down from the dizzy and dangerous peak of inflation without breaking its neck. Food and apparel prices had come down 3.8%, wholesale prices of manufactured goods about 5% and the total cost...