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Montana is the nation's fourth biggest state in size, but it has so few people (five per square mile) that its population could slip into Dallas with room to spare. Yet it supports six campuses: Montana State University at Missoula, Montana State College at Bozeman, a school of mines at Butte, teachers' colleges at Dillon, Havre and Billings. Montana's whole budget for higher education is less than the budget at Princeton-which is not surprising in a state where per capita income ($1,963) has risen less than 11% in a decade...
...have to wrestle with each other but also face such competitors as General Electric. General Motors and IBM. In 1950, Du-Pont had one competitor in polyethylene resins; today it has 16-which is one reason why its basic prices have melted 12% since 1954 and its profits will slip a bit this year even though sales will...
...last exit in the Wall. Pretending to have engine trouble, he measured the height of the barrier, found that it was only 37½ in. from the ground. His next step was to search the car rental agencies in West Berlin for a sports car small enough to slip under the beam. He finally decided on an Austin Healey Sprite, which, without its windshield, measured 35½ in. high. Meixner confided in another young Austrian, gave him an exact timetable of his plans and asked him to prevent any cars on the Western side from starting into the barrier area...
...Lilliputian pinpricks and Brobdingnagian stakes. It is a day war and a night war, in which the government controls most highways and waterways by daylight (though a U.S. lieutenant and two Vietnamese soldiers were killed in a daylight roadside ambush last week), and the Viet Cong slip in from jungles and swamps to take charge after dark. In the rugged north, it is a mountain war, in which the Reds are short of food, medicine, weapons, and largely on the defensive; in the south, it is a battle for the nation's rice granary, where the guerrillas have cunningly...
...Dwight Harken during World War II, when he removed shell fragments from servicemen's hearts. His main postwar concern has been with heart valves, especially mitral valves that have been damaged by rheumatic fever. In 1948, he was one of a few bold surgeons who first dared to slip a finger, with a tiny surgical knife at the tip, into a beating heart to separate the leaflets of a mitral valve partly closed by scarring...