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...birth rate of the '30s, which has kept college classes limited; 2) the armed forces, which snatch many engineering students before private industry gets them (the greatest concentration of M.I.T. graduates in the world now works at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base); 3) a wrong steer (fostered by prophetic experts) that engineering would soon be an overcrowded profession...
...dealt, with a dreary procession of dreary people setting up steering committees, policy committees to show the steering committees, and planning committees to steer the policy committee. Philbrick dutifully recorded everything that happened. The result is a last that has that soggy impact of a Gromyke speech...
Reduced to tears, Delaney denied everything-or almost everything. All he had done, he said, was arrange to steer Friedman to likely insurance prospects. Then Delaney's health went bad. Commission checks from Friedman began to roll in. What could he do but deposit them? He had conscientiously reported $10,000 of extra income from this source on his tax return...
...Tories are squeezing labor into defense plants by cutting steel allocations to nonessential industries. Labor Minister Sir Walter Monckton, who shares the prevailing Tory dislike for the word "control," last week got trade union approval for what was called a "notification of vacancies order" giving the government power to "steer" workers into defense jobs...
Rancher Thornton sold a prize steer for a charity benefit (see cut), Ward cheerfully made the high bid of $6,000. Just as cheerfully, Thornton later lent Ward $10,000 for a quick deal in return for a postdated $12,500 check (the extra $2,500 was to be Thornton's profit). The governor was puzzled when the check bounced...