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...choice but to work on his book at home or teach to earn extra cash. Rising university salaries and abundant foundation generosity have released him for exotic research and farflung adventure. Within the last decade, the number of professors going abroad during the school year nearly tripled, to a peak of 3,954 in 1965-66. During the summer, about 40% of the nation's 325,000 university teachers remain behind to teach...
...interior of an auto serves as a kind of reverberating chamber, the sound envelops the listener as though he were sitting in the middle of the New York Philharmonic cello section. Indeed, the sound is so all-encompassing that, with the windows closed and the volume turned up to peak levels, it is difficult to tell if the horns are playing 1812 Overture or "Look out!" Though Safety Crusader Ralph Nader labels the tapes as "Just another step toward insulating the driver completely from the outside," the National Safety Council believes that stereo played at a normal volume...
...John F. Kennedy's assassination. Throughout the rest of the week, the market tried bravely to rally, failed, and ended up at a Dow-Jones average of 847.38, a new low for the year, and down 148 points, or 15%, from Feb. 9's peak of 995.15. The Big Board's new flattened-out index (TIME, July 22) slipped one point to 45.29, or 2%. The Dow-Jones rail average also hit a 1966 low of 220.26, a fact that immediately led some pessimists to recall a Wall Street adage to the effect that when industrials...
...into his Crusader outside Haiphong, setting it aflame and pushing the plane into an all but ungovernable wobble. Unable to reach the sea, Adams cajoled the faltering craft toward a desolate-looking mountain area, away from the densely populated Hanoi-Haiphong complex. Half a mile from a looming mountain peak, at an altitude of 200 ft., he radioed: "Sorry about that. See you in a year"-then he pulled his cockpit ejection loops seconds before the plane piled into the peak...
...degree of reason underlies the apparent fare madness. Explains Tillinghast: "We're trying to bribe the public to go at non-peak times. If you had a single fare system, you would get an unwholesome peaking of traffic and an unhealthy number of empty seats...