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...Khruschev also anounced that for this twenty-year period the government would not float any new loans. Since the average worker in Russia has usually been encouraged to buy bonds totalling about three weeks' worth of his annual salary, this is an economic blessing. In return for this boon he can virtually bid his present investments farewell. Yet the worker who has been buying his quota every year probably never had much hope for his future investment...
Founded in 1948 by the Southern governors, the S.R.E.B. has been a major boon to higher education in Dixie. But the man most responsible for its success is its softspoken, diplomatic Director John Eli Ivey Jr. When the governors found him, Sociologist Ivey was only 28-the youngest full professor at the University of North Carolina. His mission with the S.R.E.B.: to fill the gaps in Southern higher education by getting states and campuses to share each other's facilities...
...young mining engineer, moved into the presidency and set out to build a self-contained empire. He began mining the area's neglected iron pyrite deposits (for sulphuric acid), then built a plant to process the pyrite wastes, and extracted 600,000 tons of pig iron yearly-a boon for iron-poor Italy. He made blasting powder for his own mines and turned Catini into Italy's No. 1 explosives manufacturer. Long before industry as a whole appreciated the need for research, he surrounded himself with scientists, and Catini's white-coated Giacomo Fauser developed the world...
...last night the University police had not been notified of the plan. Chief Matthew J. Toohey said as yet no cooperation between Cambridge and University police had been planned. He added, though, that he felt Curry's action would be a boon to students...
...valedictorians, class presidents and successful college students. Meanwhile, they learn to get over such "blindisms" as the habit of poking at their eyes, of sprawling in their seats (because they cannot see how sloppy they look), and walking with their heads bent low. But integration has not been a boon to the blind alone. "It works both ways," says First-Grade Teacher Wilba Bourgeois of New Orleans' Thomas Jefferson School: "It teaches the sighted to be kind and patient. It also challenges them. When they see a blind child who can read and spell, they know that they should...