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Robert V. Pound, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, says he is not enthusiastic about rules and regulations and does not support a highly-organized curriculum. He seeks a maximum of flexibility and options and would like to see "lots of things people see as ingredients of the core curriculum as options for students...
...carved granite peaks rise above the timberline marked by noble stands of ponderosa, Jeffrey and sugar pine; Eureka and Madora lakes sparkle in the summer sun, which even in August has not melted the mountain snows. Jamison Creek, running fast and clear through the park, is alive with half-pound rainbow and brook trout. Campers looking for more strenuous recreation backpack into lake-dotted Plumas National Forest, which offers good deer hunting; black bears, cougars, mountain lions and bobcats can also be seen there...
...Englishman's truly distinctive disease is his cherished habit of waiting until the 13th hour," wrote British Historian Arnold Toynbee last November. Events have since proved him right. It took a serious pound scare and a disastrous inflation rate of 26% to prod Britain's Labor government into coming up with what Prime Minister Harold Wilson called "a plan to save our country" from a "general economic catastrophe of incalculable proportions" (TIME, July 21). Last Tuesday, after two days of passionate, often bitter debate, the House of Commons approved the government's emergency package by a vote...
...voice while drinking a glass of water and ends up with a gurgling dummy. Or the comedian, running out of material, who demonstrates the techniques he could employ for cheap laughs: revealing funny pictures drawn on his chest or hitting himself in the face with a cake-a pound cake...
...family of four earning $8,100; today the figure is 37%. As a result, experts are taking their first long look at the machinery in years. What they are finding is a costly, cumbersome system that, for example, adds 24.3?, or 69%, to the price of a pound of chicken between farm and check-out counter (see chart). Some indicators...