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...editorial exactly ten years ago--before the $82.5 million fund drive for the College had begun and before the exhaustive Faculty debates on General Education--is equally relevant today: "But if Harvard is still to offer a unique educational experience, the Administration will have to resist the temptations of supermarket education, and to attend to the House system and independent study...
...brought the price of corn down again this year. You blame rising food prices on Government subsidies-how about the fact that the U.S. housewife today wants her food completely prepared for her before she buys it, does not this add considerably to the cost of food in the supermarket? Furthermore, as a nation, we still enjoy the lowest food costs (in terms of annual income of consumers) of any industrial nation. True, hunger stalks half the world, but the U.S. farmer will not gain much by giving food away-the good feeling one gets from acts of charity will...
...nearly $19 million, up 18% from last year, and gross earnings of $1.1 million, 25% more than in 1966. His department store, "Town House," is the best-stocked on the island and is being expanded into a shopping center planned for mid-1968. His three-store Pay Less supermarket group will grow to five by the end of next year. His American Motors Agency is the only, one in the world that outsells both G.M. and Ford in its sales area. A restaurant that he leased for 50 years is considered the best in Guam; his Cliff Hotel in Agana...
Final Arbiter. Price is not the only difference between slums and suburbs. During the luncheon break in Harlem, Subcommittee Chairman Benjamin Rosenthal of New York City led aides and reporters to a supermarket for a personal check. Packaged goods were found to be mismarked, frozen foods were half thawed, and the manager admitted that after two days on the shelf, packaged meat was taken back to the butcher's block, repackaged, relabeled-and redated. In St. Louis, a test by the city health laboratory determined that hamburger purchased at a slum store was 26.5% fat compared with...
...March 12, he will have to elucidate comprehensive-and comprehensible-positions on foreign policy and pervasive domestic issues. Richard Nixon,* meanwhile, is gearing his campaign in the Granite State to emphasize his expertise on foreign affairs and other major issues; Romney plans to jog through the street-corner-and-supermarket campaign that suits him best...