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...Only a handful of American colleges have total endowments as large as our financial aid capital funds," he wrote. "Yet despite this extraordinary outpouring of funds, which can hardly be expected to continue at this pace indefinitely, no significant gains were made in lowering the economic barrier to a Harvard education...
...that the Berlin barrier to the West is complete, East Germany's Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht feels safe in squeezing the workers in a way that might have brought revolt-or a sudden surge of escaping refugees-a few months or weeks ago. Calling for greater factory production last week, the regime announced a new slogan: "More production in the same time for the same money...
...trophy business, which in the past thrived almost wholly on orders from schools and sports organizations, nowadays gets lots of orders for kooky conversation pieces. It has broken through the specialty barrier into the gimmick field so well that Bruce Robbins' stores alone gross more than a million dollars a year. All told, trophy manufacturing runs to about $28 million annually, and dealers' income equals that. A big part of the business comes from the general growth of such activities as golf and bowling, whose adherents require standing symbols of victory over one another; Manhattan's Tiffany...
Tense Half-Hour. Then, three busloads of sightseeing U.S. troops were sent across the Friedrichstrasse entry point in a deliberate showdown. Bluntly, a Vopo at the barrier demanded to see the drivers' identity cards. But the convoy's captain just as bluntly refused. The rules required, he said, that documents be shown only to Russians. "These buses are going through in 30 minutes," declared U.S. Provost Marshal Colonel Robert Sabolyk. "If they are held up, we know what to do about it." When the half-hour was up, no Russian was in sight. Grimly, the bus drivers started...
...Poland's Edmund Piatkowski. Fortnight ago in Frankfurt, he broke the record convincingly with a heave of 198 ft. 7 in. Not content with last week's record toss in Brussels.Silvester intends to stay in the throwing ring until he has flung the discus past that magic barrier...