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...University of Chicago gives especially promising students a "tutorial" year, allows them to settle upon one field and to choose courses and "planned leisure" activities related to it. To get an A.B., students must pass stiff written and oral exams and write a "Bachelor's essay." In 1954 when the program began, only one student tried it (his special interest: a comparative theology study of Tillich and Maritain). Today there are ten. ¶ Last fall Iowa's Grinnell College started "four-three" program to permit certain students to earn a fourth credit for extra independent work done...
...example, many small companies with limited capital are forced to buy used equipment or old buildings, but must depreciate their investment for tax purposes at a less favorable rate than permitted for the new equipment big companies can afford to buy. Worst of all, inheritance taxes are so stiff that the heirs of many small family-owned businesses are often forced to sell off their holdings at distress prices, or are left without sufficient capital to continue operating...
...festival, opened the proceedings with some scenes from their recent production of Arthur Miller's View from the Bridge. Considering the fact that Yale was working on its home ground, the technical side of the presentation left something to be desired. It was well acted, but suffered from stiff direction and poor lighting...
James Mason is a suitably stiff yet dashing Field Marshal. Supported by fetching Jessica Tandy as his wife and Cedric Hardwicke, looking like the archtype of the educated German man-of-action, he manages to convey his problem effectively. His irritation with his master and his hesitation to act upon it seem more real than his exaggerated decisiveness with maps and binoculars. Yet if Rommel seems almost too fine a soldier, Hollywood can be forgiven this concession to folk lore in gratitude for portraying the man as well...
...Cadillac, then I can take trips to Florida to confer with other union leaders." Even New York Labor Extortionist Johnny Dio was willing to put out $20,000 of his own money to start a Teamsters' local. Nobody ever accused Dio of caring about the working stiff; it was simply a first-rate investment...