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...Teamster-oriented papers found that they could not absorb such featherbedding, and shut down. That left one paper, the Daily Press, still in business. How long is anybody's guess, since the Teamsters are insisting that the Press alone hire all their out-of-work members. Meanwhile, management of the two struck regular dailies and the unions are not even talking...
...merger would create a system every bit as affluent as the Penn Central. It would include the Nickel Plate and the Wabash, already owned by the Norfolk & Western, as well as the Erie Lackawanna, Delaware & Hudson, and Boston & Maine, which the ICC already has ordered the Norfolk & Western to absorb...
While students will naturally have to absorb some of the rising costs, shifting all of the increase to them would be an undesirable result of the Zaccharias plan. "It would be unfortunate if attention were focused on just this one program," R. Jerrold Gibson, Assistant Director of Financial Aid, cautions. "When you head into a crisis like this one, you have a tendency to look for first aid. What you really need is a balanced solution...
...Never in history," he said, "has there been such a need for men and women of wisdom and courage-wisdom to absorb the knowledge of the past and plan its application to the present and future, and courage to make the hard decisions." Thus a university cannot be a mere "vending machine, dispensing facts and figures." Its goal must be "the production of wisdom...
...protein, Subramaniam said, 35% to 40% of the 20 million babies born in India each year eventually suffer some degree of brain damage. Often those who are afflicted are so stunted physically and mentally that by the time they reach school age, they are "unable to concentrate sufficiently to absorb and retain knowledge. We are producing millions of subhumans annually...