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...gone up only 15%. And because the federal debt is rising much more slowly than the U.S. population, the per capita federal debt has declined in the past 20 years from $1,900 to $1,600-meaning that Americans are by no means saddling their grandchildren with an unbearable load...
...planes are Russian-piloted and represent Moscow's fulfillment-along with three antiaircraft missile sites under construction near the capital-of Premier Aleksei Kosygin's February pledge to give material aid to Ho Chi Minh. The Ilyushins are slow (580 m.p.h.) and they pack a light bomb load; still they could reach South Viet...
...system can degenerate into what Harvard Senior Herbert Denton calls "a kind of WPA for grad students." Harvard pays $1,080 for each section a fellow teaches, allows him to handle up to three, limits the job to four years. Cal pays $2,500 for a half-time teaching load the first year, with small raises later. Thus while an un married TA can survive on his stipend, a married grad must put his wife to work-and even then, says Cal Graduate Dean Sanford Elberg, it takes a "religious dedication to get through...
...Enormous Amherst." Dean Elberg defends the TA system on grounds that "it allows the university to break up large classes into smaller units and then give individual instruction-it begins to humanize the institution." Professor Albritton contends that Harvard cannot increase the teaching load of its top professors without losing "a certain type of person on whom its distinction depends-Harvard would simply become an enormous Amherst...
...first row by clocking 159 m.p.h. in yet another Lotus-Ford. Last week the company discovered to its horror that its specially made tires were "chunking"-spewing out quarter-size pieces of rubber. Goodyear officials blamed it all on a faulty tire-making machine and rushed in a new load of rubber which they promised would...