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...Commonwealth ranks 47th in the nation in appropriations per capita for higher education a study sponsored by the Massachusetts Higher Education Action Council and the state Board of Higher Education shows. The report released this week after two years of preparation, concludes that at a time when the Reagan Administration is proposing unprecedented reductions in federal support for education, it is crucial that Massachusetts provide funding for its students...
...first meeting was held in Smith's 47th-floor offices in downtown Los Angeles. In general, the group looked for the same qualities that might be found in the chief executive officer of a major corporation: proven competence, team work, experience and toughness. Since the participants had been dealing with one another for so many years, there were no personality clashes. Said one member of the panel: "It was like an after-lunch conversation at a private club. Everyone pretty much respected what the other guy was trying...
...after eating some spoiled dormitory food the previous evening, serveral young women had been stricken with upset stomachs. The graduation caps, the matron suggested, would make convenient containers during the afternoon ceremony. Fortunately, all the caps stayed pinned to the graduates' heads. And the Radcliffe Class of '30, the 47th class to graduate from that college, crossed the platform to shake President Comstock's hand, stepped off the college stage and entered the sobering realities of the Depression...
...47th race to the White House has just passed its first formal milepost, last week's Iowa delegate-selection caucuses. Yet TIME'S campaign correspondents feel as if they have already endured as many bad meals, standard stump speeches, lost luggage and bumpy flights as most Americans do in a lifetime. In the process of reporting for this week's Nation and Press stories on the Iowa balloting and its implications, our "boys on the bus" paused to assess life on the campaign trail. Among their impressions...
...lines of sellers one or two at a time into the precincts of Johnson Matthey & Co., metal dealers, while tough-looking street traders sidle up to impatient standees. "Are you sellin', luv?" coos one, whipping out brass scales and rolls of pound notes. On Manhattan's West 47th Street signs blossom in jewelers' windows: "We pay the highest. Don't settle for less. Come...