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...proposals have been advanced to remedy this situation. Some would require that all exams bear detailed comments; others suggest that each student have a right to confront his grader. One of the more unique suggestions is that of Sanford A. Lakoff, assistant professor of Government. The present student-faculty ratio, Lakoff says, makes it "utopian" to expect elaborate comments or an individual session with a grader. Many courses might improve matters by devoting a special meeting to a "post-mortem" on the exam, but half-courses would find this difficult...
...enough to be an attractive merger prospect for Temco Aircraft Corp., an airframe maker that had branched into electronics. Ling was made president of the new Ling-Temco. Earnings last year equaled or slightly bettered 1959's $1.22 per share. This was 1.9% of sales, about the same ratio as Chance Vought...
...stock-option plans as a form of executive compensation has made stock-minded men of many corporate bosses who once paid little attention to Wall Street. An option is good only if the stock rises. Merger-minded companies also want their stock to have a higher price-earnings ratio; it gives them an advantage in a stock-trading merger with another company...
...brain wisely teletypes for help from human custodians, reporting the location of the trouble spot, the month, day, hour and minute of the breakdown.' Morris (pop. 7,985), which only switched to dial phones a year ago, was chosen for the pilot project because of its size, its ratio of industrial business, rural and urban residents. Although less than 10% of the town's 4,500 telephone users are current participants in the experiment (at no extra charge), more customers will be gradually added...
...daily press offered only meager nourishment for the millions of newly curious. They abounded in the dullest kind of copy: earnings reports, production indexes, commodity prices and stock charts, most of it in the strange and mystifying currency of the marketplace: "economic parity," "discretionary income." "price-earnings ratio," "net free reserves...