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...have a pretty big job right here." He does indeed. Elected by nearly 1,000,000 votes on a promise to "cut, squeeze and trim" spending, he has submitted the largest state budget in U.S. history-$5.06 billion. Having promised to keep taxes down, he has proposed the biggest one-shot tax increase ever -$946 million...
...summit meeting in Panama City in 1956, but his pleas for hemispheric solidarity were almost drowned out by cries for more U.S. aid funds. This week, as President Johnson flew southward to meet with the Presidents of 19-Latin American republics, there were grounds for hope that the biggest conference of all might produce some lasting results...
...Tulsa traffic cop called it the biggest traffic jam since Dick Nixon's 1960 campaign visit. Close to 25,000 people -in 10,000 cars-turned out when Evangelist Billy Graham, 48, came to town to help fellow evangelist and millionaire, Oral Roberts, 49, dedicate his new Oral Roberts University, whose philosophy of education is "to develop the mind, the body-and the soul." Set on a 450-acre campus in suburban Tulsa, the modernistic school already has an enrollment of 546 students, mostly children of Oral Roberts' "Pentecostal Holiness" followers. And Gra ham predicted a vast spread...
...least 300 U.S. institutions-ranging from giant state universities to dozens of tiny junior colleges-are in the market for a new top man. Most of them are ruefully discovering that U.C.L.A. Chancellor Franklin Murphy is right when he claims that "attracting high-quality academic administrators is the biggest problem in American universities today...
...biggest challenges facing undergraduate education, says Dean John Stephens of Atlanta's Emory University, is to give students "an incentive to educate themselves." Emory thinks it has an answer to the challenge: "Creative Wednesday," during which there are no classes or student activities, leaving the school's 2,187 undergraduates free to unwind, read, study, take up hobbies, or just catch up on their sleep...