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Baxter, who is vice-president of the American Branch of the International Law Association, is an expert on international law. He has been on the Faculty of Harvard Law School since 1955, and is author of The Law of International Waterways. He is a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves...
Though no two Morrison's cafeterias are decorated alike-motifs can vary from French colonial to classical Roman-menus, portions and prices are the same from branch to branch. Shunning more exotic dishes, the chain sticks to such bestselling staples as roast beef, chicken and fried shrimp, specifications for which are detailed in a six-inch-thick recipe book called "the Bible." With an IBM computer keeping close tabs on supplies and customer preferences, Morrison's holds losses from spoilage and leftovers to a scant 2%. Similar precision governs food display: on the serving line, such higher-profit...
...Colleges in Chester, Pa. Started as a boys' school in 1821 and known as Pennsylvania Military College for 73 years, the school was skidding toward bankruptcy before it opened a coed night division in 1954, accepted full-time nonmilitary students in 1958, finally added an all-civilian branch, called Penn Morton College, in 1966. The trustees fought for two years over what to name the combination, finally agreed on PMC to please those alumni who wanted some suggestion of a military designation. Although cadet applications have been dropping for four years and some 100 beds in cadet dorms...
...this is just what McCarthy has been campaigning against. The President and the Secretary of State now have too much power in the setting of foreign policy. Bundy would wrest away what little authority Congress now has in this area by giving more fiscal power to the executive branch, including the power of tax--within limits of course, but limits that would probably be great enough to support a major escalation of any given...
...minimize errors-a major problem in back-office operations-the machine displays each message on its video-type screen so that the clerk can proofread it before pushing the "transmit" button. Best of all, the data is fed directly into a computer that automatically relays it to the proper branch office. The system thus eliminates one of the most time-consuming aspects of back-office paperwork: matching buy and sell reports from exchanges with each customer's original order and passing the word along to the salesman...