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...system, 88% complete, brings most of the remoter regions to within an hour or two's drive of a city. Jet planes and a growing number of airports provide similar ease of access to he outside world. Television pipes its news and entertainment into the countryside. Along with lesser fare, Live from Lincoln Center can now be seen across the country without going to New York and paying the price (up to $25) of a ticket Universities have opened branches and hundreds of two-year community colleges have sprung up in small towns, injecting a new cultural life...
Major illnesses have profoundly affected the presidency. The classic case in modern times concerns Franklin Roosevelt; he was too sick to run for a fourth term, and history would be different if he had not done so. But lesser afflictions have their effects too, though they are harder to detect...
...proposal which would provide full breakfasts at only five Houses and breakfasts of toast, milk, juice, and cereal at the other eight, would save approximately $11 of student fees in 1976 and $18 the year after that. Gross said the savings would be reflected as a "lesser increase" in board fees next year...
...chance to establish himself as the dominant educational leader on campus, as were his predecessors before Pusey, his protective wall is starting to crumble. Recent announcements of future resignations by faculty deans and the likely departure of at least one of his four vice presidents, plus a host of lesser changes, threaten to force Bok back into his managerial role...
...lesser hands, this seven-authored volume might have been no more than a polished family album. Instead, Leona and Jerrold Schecter and their children (who ranged in age from five to 13 when Schecter took over TIME's Moscow bureau in 1968) display insight and perceptions that lend their memory book a universal appeal...