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...Rice is confident that there will be no trouble finding preachers. "I have found there is still a little of the old missionary zeal in the men in our divinity schools," he says. "I seldom fail to find a young fellow ready to tackle the toughest spot we can assign...
...campaign to make his own aluminum because, he said, the Big Three withheld supplies to independent fabricators. First of all, he would need cheap electric power. It was scarce, but Harvey seemed to have no trouble finding it. He persuaded the Interior Department's Bonneville Power Administration to assign him 111,500 kilowatts from the new Hungry Horse Dam being built near Kalispell, Mont. To use the power, Harvey needed electric rectifiers. From War Surplus Boss Jess Larson, Harvey bought enough for a complete "pot-line" (i.e., enough to make 35 million Ibs. of aluminum a year). After that...
...pioneer workers in this continental area implemented a new group based on an ideology of free boundaries and initial conditions of equality. We are now actively engaged in an overall evaluation of conflicting factors . . . We are met in an area of maximum activity among the conflicting factors . . . to assign permanent positions to the units which have been annihilated in the process of attaining a steady state. This procedure represents standard practice at the administrative level...
...From a more comprehensive viewpoint, we cannot assign - we cannot integrate - we cannot implement this area . . . The courageous units, in being annihilated . . . have integrated it to the point where the application of simple arithmetical operations to include our efforts would produce only negligible effects...
...raise, refused to supervise any extracurricular activities. Last week, in an attempt to end the deadlock, the city's Board of Education passed the buck to its high-school principals. Armed with a ruling from the State Education Department, it adopted a new regulation which ordered principals to assign "reasonable amounts [of work] outside of regular classroom instruction," and threatened recalcitrant teachers with charges of insubordination and possible dismissal...