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Other University officials have given assurances that room and board rates will remain the same next year. A ten percent across-the-board hike in room rents went into effect this fall...
...Shoup see if the Marines of 1963 could match their counterparts of 1908. Shoup promptly promulgated plans for at least 20 officers at the Marine base at Camp Lejeune, N.C., to set out this week in dungarees, boots, helmets and 24-lb. packs on the 50-mile, 20-hr. hike. Semper paratus, one 49-year-old lieutenant colonel got off to a head start, cut 6½ hours off the time limit. Kennedy indicated that if the Marines passed their test he would do something about measuring the fitness of his rather sedentary White House staff. His interest seemed...
...Getulio Vargas, Brazil's master demagogue. In the middle 19405, Goulart marked himself as a man to watch in the Brazilian Labor Party. As Vargas' Labor Minister in 1953, Goulart spent his time approving one wage boost after another. Finally, when he proposed a 100% wage hike for all workers, conservatives complained so strongly that Vargas fired...
...more than offset by rising sales within the Market itself. Thus encouraged, nearly all Europe's automakers plan to expand. Ford is building a huge auto assembly plant in Belgium; General Motors' Opel is opening a new factory in the Ruhr; Alfa Romeo intends to hike its output from 300 to 400 autos a day by next year...
...every air traveler knows, one of the massive deterrents to flying is the walking it involves. With the coming of the jets and the extra space their blasting exhausts require, airport acreage has multiplied, and the problem has become worse. The hike from check-in counter to the farthest reaches of the San Francisco International Airport is more than a quarter of a mile, or twice around a football field at a nonjog trot. Puffed one woman soon after Atlanta's new $20 million airport opened in May: "I declare, if they had told me I would have...