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...courses. Whether or not its recommendations will succeed, if they are adopted, is an open question, but they combine the carrot of sabbaticals and the stick of quotas into a system of persuasion and coercion more extensive than anything yet tried. It is questionable, however, how they will offset the idea in the minds of junior Faculty members that their promotion will depend more upon their work in their departments then upon the inspirational quality of their Gen Ed lectures and sections. Motivating teachers, however, is not a problem of Gen Ed courses alone...
...week he completed 40 years in the post, and Lyndon Johnson weighed in with his own endorsement. Next New Year's Day the top lawman will reach the compulsory retirement age of 70. "I know you wouldn't think of breaking the law," said L.B.J. So to offset the requirement, the President signed a special executive order that will allow the hale and hearty bachelor to continue serving "for an indefinite period of time...
...Each of us separately," he said, can then "try to offset the actions of others through our own economic atcivity." By being unprejudiced and hiring Negroes, "we get things at less cost," he said. "Not only does virtue triumph--it is even rewarded...
...easy swipe for the American, which prints by the offset process; all the paper had to do was cut out a Republic box score, paste it up on a dummy of its own sports page and then photograph and engrave the whole page. A very useful trick for a small, struggling daily without much money to spend. But the Republic's Gianelli decided to fix the American's wagon. So into one box score he inserted a damning phrase-REPRINTED FROM REPUBLIC. Sure enough, it came out that way in the American that same afternoon...
...fact is that acreage allotments and a melange of other schemes have failed to offset the rising trend in cotton yields per acre. It is quite obvious that without stringent marketing quotas, which the Administration has not asked for, the existing price supports will simply help perpetuate a mess...